{"id":1484677,"date":"2024-08-20T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1484677"},"modified":"2024-08-20T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T07:00:00","slug":"more-than-1-in-9-americans-live-in-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/more-than-1-in-9-americans-live-in-poverty\/1484677\/","title":{"rendered":"More Than 1 In 9 Americans Live In Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"

More Than 1 In 9 Americans Live In Poverty<\/span><\/p>\n

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In 2022, the U.S. official poverty rate was\u00a011.5%<\/a>\u00a0with a total of 37.9 million people in poverty. <\/strong><\/p>\n

This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, <\/a>visualizes the three-year average of poverty rates by U.S. state from 2020 to 2022.<\/p>\n

The poverty rates are calculated using the\u00a0official poverty measure<\/a>, which defines poverty by comparing the pre-tax annual income to a specific national threshold adjusted for family size.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The figures come from the\u00a0U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>\u00a0and are updated as of September 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n

Southern U.S. Generally More Poor<\/h2>\n

U.S. poverty rates were relatively higher in the South.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of the states with the highest poverty rates, including New Mexico (18.2%), Mississippi (17.8%), Louisiana (16.9%), Arkansas (15.9%), and Kentucky (15.8%), are characterized by large rural areas which are historically poorer than urban areas.<\/p>\n

State
\n\t\t\tNumber of people in poverty (in thousands)
\n\t\t\tPercentage of population in poverty
\n\t\tNew Mexico
\n\t\t\t382
\n\t\t\t18.2%
\n\t\tMississippi
\n\t\t\t518
\n\t\t\t17.8%
\n\t\tLouisiana
\n\t\t\t765
\n\t\t\t16.9%
\n\t\tArkansas
\n\t\t\t475
\n\t\t\t15.9%
\n\t\tKentucky
\n\t\t\t706
\n\t\t\t15.8%
\n\t\tOklahoma
\n\t\t\t620
\n\t\t\t15.8%
\n\t\tWest Virginia
\n\t\t\t274
\n\t\t\t15.6%
\n\t\tAlabama
\n\t\t\t738
\n\t\t\t14.8%
\n\t\tDistrict of Columbia
\n\t\t\t98
\n\t\t\t14.7%
\n\t\tTexas
\n\t\t\t4,026
\n\t\t\t13.7%
\n\t\tNorth Carolina
\n\t\t\t1,407
\n\t\t\t13.3%
\n\t\tSouth Carolina
\n\t\t\t693
\n\t\t\t13.3%
\n\t\tFlorida
\n\t\t\t2,861
\n\t\t\t13.1%
\n\t\tGeorgia
\n\t\t\t1,391
\n\t\t\t13.0%
\n\t\tNevada
\n\t\t\t394
\n\t\t\t12.6%
\n\t\tNew York
\n\t\t\t2,410
\n\t\t\t12.4%
\n\t\tArizona
\n\t\t\t876
\n\t\t\t12.1%
\n\t\tMichigan
\n\t\t\t1,156
\n\t\t\t11.7%
\n\t\tAlaska
\n\t\t\t81
\n\t\t\t11.5%
\n\t\tMissouri
\n\t\t\t695
\n\t\t\t11.5%
\n\t\tOhio
\n\t\t\t1,345
\n\t\t\t11.5%
\n\t\tCalifornia
\n\t\t\t4,439
\n\t\t\t11.4%
\n\t\tTennessee
\n\t\t\t796
\n\t\t\t11.4%
\n\t\tIndiana
\n\t\t\t739
\n\t\t\t10.9%
\n\t\tPennsylvania
\n\t\t\t1,368
\n\t\t\t10.8%
\n\t\tMontana
\n\t\t\t118
\n\t\t\t10.7%
\n\t\tDelaware
\n\t\t\t106
\n\t\t\t10.5%
\n\t\tHawaii
\n\t\t\t146
\n\t\t\t10.2%
\n\t\tConnecticut
\n\t\t\t350
\n\t\t\t9.8%
\n\t\tSouth Dakota
\n\t\t\t86
\n\t\t\t9.7%
\n\t\tNorth Dakota
\n\t\t\t73
\n\t\t\t9.6%
\n\t\tOregon
\n\t\t\t399
\n\t\t\t9.5%
\n\t\tIllinois
\n\t\t\t1,174
\n\t\t\t9.4%
\n\t\tIowa
\n\t\t\t299
\n\t\t\t9.4%
\n\t\tKansas
\n\t\t\t260
\n\t\t\t9.0%
\n\t\tIdaho
\n\t\t\t170
\n\t\t\t8.9%
\n\t\tMaine
\n\t\t\t122
\n\t\t\t8.9%
\n\t\tRhode Island
\n\t\t\t95
\n\t\t\t8.8%
\n\t\tWyoming
\n\t\t\t49
\n\t\t\t8.7%
\n\t\tMaryland
\n\t\t\t529
\n\t\t\t8.6%
\n\t\tVirginia
\n\t\t\t733
\n\t\t\t8.6%
\n\t\tColorado
\n\t\t\t489
\n\t\t\t8.5%
\n\t\tMassachusetts
\n\t\t\t589
\n\t\t\t8.5%
\n\t\tVermont
\n\t\t\t53
\n\t\t\t8.4%
\n\t\tWashington
\n\t\t\t637
\n\t\t\t8.3%
\n\t\tNew Jersey
\n\t\t\t749
\n\t\t\t8.2%
\n\t\tNebraska
\n\t\t\t159
\n\t\t\t8.1%
\n\t\tWisconsin
\n\t\t\t467
\n\t\t\t8.0%
\n\t\tMinnesota
\n\t\t\t429
\n\t\t\t7.7%
\n\t\tNew Hampshire
\n\t\t\t99
\n\t\t\t7.1%
\n\t\tUtah
\n\t\t\t235
\n\t\t\t7.1%<\/p>\n

Many of these Southern states also have low levels of education attainment and labor force participation, which contribute to\u00a0slow economic growth<\/a>\u00a0and lower personal income levels.<\/p>\n

Nine<\/a>\u00a0of the 15 states with the lowest per-worker GDP are in the South, and states like Kentucky and Arkansas are among the states with the lowest\u00a0prime-age employment-to-population<\/a>\u00a0ratio.<\/p>\n

On the county level, about\u00a0one in five<\/a>\u00a0counties in the South experienced \u201cpersistent poverty,\u201d maintaining a poverty rate above 20% for three decades. Over 80% of all persistently poor counties in the U.S. are located in the South.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 08\/19\/2024 – 23:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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