The U.S. poverty rate dropped significantly in the last half of the decade, going from 15.5% in 2011-15, after the Great Recession, to 12.8% in 2016-20. DAMIAN DOVARGANES/AP
Mike Schneider ASSOCIATED PRESS The U.S. grew wealthier, better educated, less impoverished and less transient during the second half of the last decade, according to…