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	Poverty in the United States, by Isabel V. Sawhill: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and ...
		The poverty rate among the elderly, for example, after declining dramatically from 35.2 percent in 1959 to 12.2 percent in 1990, is now lower than for the rest of the population.
		The failure of the aggregate poverty rate to decline in the seventies, and its subsequent rise in the eighties, suggest to some that the War on Poverty launched by the federal government in the midsixties failed.
		Indeed, the incidence of poverty was as high in the late eighties as it was in the late sixties, and the average poverty rate for the eighties was 2 percentage points higher than the average for the seventies.
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/PovertyintheUnitedStates.html (2680 words)

	Poverty in the United States — Infoplease.com
		After 4 years of consecutive increases, the poverty rate stabilized in 2005— higher than the most recent low of 11.3% in 2000 and lower than the rate in 1959 (22.4%), the first year for which poverty estimates are available.
		The poverty rate in 2005 for children under 18 (17.6%) remained higher than that of 18-to-64-year-olds (11.1%) and that of people 65 and older (10.1%)—all were not statistically different from 2004.
		In 2005, the poverty rate for families decreased to 9.9% from 10.2% in 2004, while the number of families in poverty remained statistically unchanged at 7.7 million in 2005.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0104520.html (591 words)

	Population Resource Center
		Although 2000 was a 22-year low in the poverty rate, the proportion of Americans who were poor rose again in 2001, reflecting the onset of a recession in the United States.
		Poverty rates were 16.5 percent in central cities, 14.2 percent in rural areas, and 8.2 percent in suburbs.
		In 1967, the poverty threshold for a family of four was 38 percent of the median income for a family of that size.
	www.prcdc.org /summaries/poverty/poverty.html (1511 words)

	Center for Immigration Studies
		The poverty rate for persons living in immigrant households grew dramatically, from 15.5 percent in 1979 to 18.8 percent in 1989 and to 21.8 percent in 1997, while over the same period the poverty rate for persons in native households stayed relatively constant at roughly 12 percent.
		In 1979, the poverty rate for persons living in households headed by an immigrant who arrived in the ten year prior was 23 percent; by 1997, the poverty rate for individuals in households headed by a new immigrant had increased to 29.2 percent.
		The rise in immigrant poverty was not caused by an increase in the recency of the immigrant population.
	www.cis.org /articles/poverty_study/execsummary.html (3925 words)

	Poverty in the United States Summary
		The Census Bureau issues the poverty thresholds, which are generally used for statistical purposes—for example, to estimate the number of people in poverty nationwide each year and classify them by type of residence, race, and other social, economic, and demographic characteristics.
		In the United States it is claimed that poverty is often understated, yet there are some who also believe it is overstated; thus the accuracy of the current poverty threshold guidelines is subject to debate and considerable concern.
		U.S. Census Bureau Poverty in the United States
	www.bookrags.com /Poverty_in_the_United_States (2533 words)

	National Poverty Center - The University of Michigan
		The United States determines the official poverty rate using poverty thresholds that are issued each year by the Census Bureau.
		Poverty guidelines are a simplified version of poverty thresholds and are issued by the Department of Health and Human Services to determine financial eligibility for certain federal programs.
		Children represent a disproportionate share of the poor in the United States; they are 25 percent of the total population, but 35 percent of the poor population.
	www.npc.umich.edu /poverty (1476 words)

	Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States: A Book of Charts
		One basic issue in measuring immigrant poverty relates to the treatment of minor children born to immigrant parents in the U.S. For example, consider the case of a woman who comes to the U.S. from a foreign country and gives birth to a child in the U.S. without being married.
		For example, the poverty rate among immigrant children whose parents lack a high school diploma (at 40.6 percent) is more than six times higher than the poverty rate among immigrant children with college-educated parents (6.3 percent).
		The poverty rates of non-immigrant Asians and Hispanics thus reflect the education levels of recent immigrant cohorts to a considerable degree.
	www.heritage.org /Research/Immigration/SR9.cfm (6234 words)

	How is poverty measured in the United States?
		Like any poverty measure, Orshansky's measure had two components--a set of poverty lines or income thresholds, and a definition of family income to be compared with those thresholds.
		Orshansky developed her poverty thresholds by taking the cost of a minimum adequate diet for families of different sizes and multiplying the cost by three to allow for other expenses.
		In 1967, the Census Bureau began to publish annual poverty statistics calculating the number and percentage of persons in poverty (the poverty population and the poverty rate) by comparing the Orshansky thresholds to families' before-tax money income, using data from the Current Population Survey that is taken every year in March.
	www.irp.wisc.edu /faqs/faq2.htm (404 words)

	NCCP \| Child Poverty in States Hit by Hurricane Katrina
		Child poverty and material hardship are not just problems experienced by the states in Katrina's path—they are problems that plague Americans around the country.
		Across the United States, 20% of children under age 6 live in poor families; 16% of children age 6 or older live in poor families.
		State data were calculated from the U.S. Current Population Survey, Annual Social and Economic Supplement, March 2003, 2004, and 2005, which represents information from calendar years 2002, 2003, and 2004.
	www.nccp.org /pub_cpt05a.html (1095 words)

	In United States, poverty is one of most serious problems
		According to the Social Security Administration’s (SAA) official poverty line 1.51 percent of the population was defined as living in poverty in 1993 (the 1993 data on poverty from U.S. Bureau of Census, 1995).
		The same theories are used as poverty to explain the racial/ethnicity and gender inequalities.
		To eliminate poverty in the United States fundamental change needs to be made because the causes of poverty are structural and institutional.
	www.msu.edu /~asaimado/papers/SOC131Poverty.htm (966 words)

	United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
		The Holy Father will arrive in Washington on the evening of April 15, with a visit to the White House on April 16 and a meeting with the bishops of the United States at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception that evening.
		April 17 will include a public Mass at the new Nationals Stadium in Washington and a meeting with the presidents of Catholic universities and diocesan heads of education at Catholic University of America, as well as a meeting with representatives of other religions at the John Paul II Cultural Center.
		By providing these links, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops assumes no responsibility for, nor does it necessarily endorse, these websites, their content, or their sponsoring organizations.
	www.usccb.org (348 words)

	RESULTS: Hunger and Poverty in the United States
		The face of hunger and poverty in the United States is quite different from the images we often see in developing nations.
		The face of a poor person in the United States is a single parent who works full time, but still can’t afford to pay for food, rent, child care, medical bills, and the costs of car to travel to work.
		It is ironic that as the world’s wealthiest nation, hunger and poverty in the United States still persist.
	www.results.org /website/article.asp?id=350 (821 words)

	Facts and figures on poverty in the United States \| By Sarah Kraybill \| Grist \| Counter Culture \| 13 Feb 2006
		Poverty is not a happenning it is an illness and it brings with it squallor.
		Poverty will cease when the rich stop exploiting what they believe to be their right (of access to land that might otherwise be properly used), so that those without jobs can have the chance to produce goods more cheeply and make an honnest living.
		Poverty will cease when those who take the thing they did not create namely the land value and then don't pay for it, whether they use it properly or not.
	www.grist.org /news/counter/2006/02/13/poverty (1208 words)

	Ted Kennedy \| Poverty in the United States
		The poverty rate has risen for four consecutive years—the rate was 11.3 percent in 2000.
		•Poverty rates remain unchanged for Blacks (24.7 percent) and Hispanics (21.9 percent), rose for non-Hispanic Whites (8.6 percent in 2004, up from 8.2 percent in 2003), and decreased for Asians (9.8 percent in 2004, down from 11.8 percent in 2003).
		Children in the United States are more likely to live in poverty than any other age group.
	www.tedkennedy.com /content/347/poverty-in-the-united-states (608 words)

	America's Second Harvest - Face of Hunger in Your Community
		Over 9 million children are estimated to be served by the America's Second Harvest Network, over 2 million of which are ages 5 and under, representing nearly 13% of all children under age 18 in the United States and over 72% of all children in poverty.
		The highest poverty rate by type of family is for female-headed, nonmetro families.
		Counties with disproportionately high rates of persistent poverty are often rural, with 340 of 386 persistent poverty counties primarily rural.
	www.secondharvest.org /who_we_help/hunger_facts.html (1015 words)

	United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
		The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is an assembly of the hierarchy of the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands who jointly exercise certain pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of the United States.
		The purpose of the Conference is to promote the greater good which the Church offers humankind, especially through forms and programs of the apostolate fittingly adapted to the circumstances of time and place.
		On July 1, 2001 the NCCB and the USCC were combined to form the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
	www.usccb.org /whoweare.shtml (543 words)

	YouTube - Poverty in 21st Century America: We Can End Poverty
		Peter Edelman, co-chair of the Center for American Progress Task Force, a group convened to study the state of poverty in the United States today, explains that chronic poverty can be fixed in the...
		Peter Edelman, co-chair of the Center for American Progress Task Force, a group convened to study the state of poverty in the United States today, explains that chronic poverty can be fixed in the United States.
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	www.youtube.com /watch?v=HHO1-1yrOfs (480 words)

	United States - Housing - Physical Characteristics - American FactFinder
		Percent of Occupied Housing Units that are Owner-Occupied, map by state
		Percent of Occupied Housing Units that are Renter-Occupied, map by state
		Percent of Housing Units That are One Unit, Detached, map by state
	factfinder.census.gov /servlet/SAFFHousing?_sse=on (311 words)

	UNITED STATES TRAVEL
		In the United States, travel is generally safe, but perhaps a bit expensive for our foreign visitors who are used to good public transportation and hostels in every town.
		The national parks of the United States are some of the best reasons to travel here.
		HQ in Bushkill PA; the park is along the Delaware River in the states of, NJ,PA Denali National Park And Preserve
	www.everythingabouttravel.com /unitedstatestravel.html (1699 words)

	Poverty - Main
		Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005
		The Effects of Taxes and Transfers on Income and Poverty in the United States: 2005 (P60-232)
		Contact the Demographic Call Center Staff at 301-763-2422 or 1-866-758-1060 (toll free) or visit ask.census.gov for further information on Poverty Statistics.
	www.census.gov /hhes/www/poverty/poverty.html (194 words)

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		The official poverty rate in 2003 (the most current year for which figures are available) was 12.5 percent, up from 12.1 percent in 2002.
		Indeed, the campaign to increase marriage has overlooked one of the most important public policy issues facing the United States: the growing economic gap between parents, whether married or unmarried, and non-parents.
		The reason for the difference is simple: These countries devote a greater percentage of their resources to assisting families with children than we do.47 Similarly, dramatic differences in child poverty rates within our country reflect differences in tax, child care, and income assistance policies across states.
	www.lycos.com /info/poverty--united-states.html (513 words)

	Poverty in the United States
		So while the proportion of the population in poverty may be the same, 5.9 million more people—approximately the population of Indiana—live in poverty today than in 1980 had the rate then been 12.6%.
		Poverty levels by state are often used to distribute federal funding for programs such as the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Head Start and the National School Lunch Program.
		It is generally accepted that this methodology underestimates the level of poverty in the United States.
	www.ibrc.iupui.edu /incontext/2000/november00/news.html (567 words)

	Reasons for Measuring Poverty in the United States in the Context of Public Policy--A Historical Review, 1916-1995
		His analysis of the poverty population was mostly qualitative, with chapters on dispossessed workers, the rural poor, the Negro poor, and the aged poor, and shorter sections on several other groups.
		The report began by noting the decline in the poverty population from 1959 to 1968 (from 39 million to 25 million persons), but did not note until later that the 1968 poverty rate was "sharply reduced" from the 1959 level.
		Poverty in the United States: 1959 to 1968, pp.
	aspe.hhs.gov /poverty/papers/reasmeaspov.htm (11165 words)

	U.S. Reports on Child Poverty in America: Facts and Figures: Save the Children (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Families receiving less than two times the federal poverty level, or $38,700, cannot meet their basic needs and are considered low-income.
		The child poverty rate among rural states is consistently higher than it is elsewhere in the country.
		Rural children are more likely to have younger and less educated parents than other children, and younger and less educated parents are more likely to lack the financial means to provide health care, education and basic necessities for their children.
	www.savethechildren.org /countries/usa/facts-and-figures.html (566 words)

	USCJ: Confronting and Combating Poverty in the United States
		In 2001, 32.9 million people in the United States lived below the federal poverty line, while the estimated cost of maintaining a safe and decent standard of living, including food, housing, healthcare, transportation, childcare and taxes was almost twice the federal poverty threshold.
		A record 41.2 million people in the United States did not have health insurance in 2001 and health care premiums are increasing dramatically -- at about 11% a year, five times the current rate of inflation.
		State our opposition to tax cuts and spending priorities that do not allow our national, state and local governments to address adequately important national priorities, including the eradication of poverty, or to maintain existing social programs which benefit the poor;
	www.uscj.org /Confronting_and_Comb6671.html (545 words)

	Amazon.com: The Other America ~ Poverty in the United States: Books: Michael Harrington (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The author in his analysis categorizes poverty as a cultural and often institutional way of life that would require radical innovations, social planning, and long term financial investment, were the government really serious about eradicating poverty in America.
		Harrington's basic thesis is incontrovertible; poverty is extensive and endemic, and is usually hidden from the view of most affluent Americans due to the ways in which the two subcultures coexist in modern society.
		Poverty may remain, as they say, always with us, but the shocking truths found in this book still sheds the light of day into an unappetizing aspect of contemporary society we all should be aware of.
	www.amazon.com /Other-America-Poverty-United-States/dp/0140213082 (2040 words)

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