The District’s poverty rate is bleak, ranking well above the national average. But there is some good news: the percentage of D.C. residents without health insurance is lower than the rate for nearby states and for the nation as a whole.
Even worse, the poverty rate in D.C. ranks third in the nation at 19.9 percent, behind only Mississippi and Louisiana.
— wamu.org
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