United States Poor People Population

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A United States Poor People Population is a poor person population that is a U.S. demographic (of U.S. poor persons).

References

  • http://www.povertyusa.org/the-state-of-poverty/poverty-facts/
  • "What the Rich Don’t Want to Admit About the Poor." The New York Times: Opinion |
    • QUOTE: ... We discuss the poor as a pity or a blight, but we rarely admit that America’s high rate of poverty is a policy choice, and there are reasons we choose it over and over again. We typically frame those reasons as questions of fairness (“Why should I have to pay for someone else’s laziness?”) or tough-minded paternalism (“Work is good for people, and if they can live on the dole, they would”). But there’s more to it than that. ...

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  • (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States Retrieved:2018-2-3.
    • Poverty is a state of deprivation, lacking the usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. [1] The most common measure of poverty in the U.S. is the “poverty threshold” set by the U.S. government. This measure recognizes poverty as a lack of those goods and services commonly taken for granted by members of mainstream society.[2] The official threshold is adjusted for inflation using the consumer price index. Most Americans will spend at least one year below the poverty line at some point between ages 25 and 75.[3] Poverty rates are persistently higher in rural and inner city parts of the country as compared to suburban areas. [4] In 2015, 13.5% (43.1 million) of Americans lived in poverty. Starting in the 1930s, relative poverty rates have consistently exceeded those of other wealthy nations. The lowest poverty rates are found in New Hampshire, Vermont, Minnesota and Nebraska, which have between 8.7% and 9.1% of their population living in poverty. In 2009 the number of people who were in poverty was approaching 1960s levels that led to the national War on Poverty. In 2011 extreme poverty in the United States, meaning households living on less than $2 per day before government benefits, was double 1996 levels at 1.5 million households, including 2.8 million children. [5] In 2012 the percentage of seniors living in poverty was 14% while 18% of children were.[6] The addition of Social Security benefits contributed more to reduce poverty than any other factor.[7] Recent census data shows that half the population qualifies as poor or low income, [8] with one in five Millennials living in poverty. [9] Academic contributors to The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States postulate that new and extreme forms of poverty have emerged in the U.S. as a result of neoliberal structural adjustment policies and globalization, which have rendered economically marginalized communities as destitute "surplus populations" in need of control and punishment. [10] In 2011, child poverty reached record high levels, with 16.7 million children living in food insecure households, about 35% more than 2007 levels. A 2013 UNICEF report ranked the U.S. as having the second highest relative child poverty rates in the developed world. [11] According to a 2016 study by the Urban Institute, teenagers in low income communities are often forced to join gangs, save school lunches, sell drugs or exchange sexual favors because they cannot afford food. [12] There were about 643,000 sheltered and unsheltered homeless people nationwide in January 2009. Almost two-thirds stayed in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program and the other third were living on the street, in an abandoned building, or another place not meant for human habitation. About 1.56 million people, or about 0.5% of the U.S. population, used an emergency shelter or a transitional housing program between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2009. Around 44% of homeless people are employed. [13] In June 2016, the IMF warned the United States that its high poverty rate needs to be tackled urgently by raising the minimum wage and offering paid maternity leave to women to encourage them to enter the labor force. [14] In December 2017, the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, undertook a two-week investigation on the effects of systemic poverty in the United States, and sharply condemned "private wealth and public squalor".
  1. ↑ Zweig, Michael (2004) What's Class Got to do With It, American Society in the Twenty-first Century. ILR Press.
  2. ↑ Schwartz, J. E. (2005). Freedom reclaimed: Rediscovering the American vision. Baltimore: G-University Press.
  3. ↑ Hacker, J. S. (2006). The great risk shift: The new insecurity and the decline of the American dream. New York: Oxford University Press (USA).
  4. ↑ Child Poverty High in Rural America Newswise, Retrieved on August 26, 2008.
  5. ↑ "Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011" National Poverty Center, February 2012
  6. ↑ "The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure " United States Census Bureau November 2013
  7. ↑ Poverty in 13 states is worse than we thought Washington Post November 8, 2013
  8. ↑ Census data: Half of U.S. poor or low income. CBS News, December 15, 2011. Retrieved February 10, 2014.
  9. ↑ Jana Kasperkevic (December 26, 2014). One in five millennials lives in poverty, report finds. The Guardian. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  10. ↑ Stephen Haymes, Maria Vidal de Haymes and Reuben Miller (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States, (London: Routledge, 2015), , pp. 2 & 3.
  11. ↑ Fisher, Max (April 15, 2013). Map: How 35 countries compare on child poverty (the U.S. is ranked 34th). The Washington Post. Retrieved February 16, 2014. See also: Child well-being in rich countries: A comparative overview. UNICEF office of Research. p. 7.
  12. ↑ US teens often forced to trade sex work for food, study finds. The Guardian. September 12, 2016.
  13. ↑ Employment and Homelessness. National Coalition for the Homeless, July 2009.
  14. ↑ IMF warns the US over high poverty. BBC, June 22, 2016.

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