Social Security keeps 21 million Americans out of poverty: A state-by-state ...

Social Security keeps 21 million Americans out of poverty: A state-by-state ...: ... it is less than 10 percent in the large majority of states. Social Security lifts 1.2 million elderly people out of poverty in California and Florida, about 800,000 in New York, Texas, and Pennsylvania, and over half a million in Ohio, Illinois ...