Poverty On The Rise?

Poverty on the Rise?

There is a very wide range of income for individuals and families. This is why we

have people that are very wealthy which are referred to as the upper class and there is the

middle class that makes an average income, and the bottom of the income bracket lies the

people in poverty. Poverty is a condition in which a person or family does not have the

means to satisfy basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation. Your race

does not matter, every race has people that are in poverty. But as it is statistically shown,

different races have a different number of people in poverty. In 1996, the federal

government established a minimum income level below which a person or family is

declared in “poverty.” If a single person makes less than $7,995 then they are living in

poverty, and a family has to exceed $16,036 or are also in poverty.

From 1996 to 1997 the poverty rate has decreased by .4% In 1996, there was

36.5 million people at the poverty level and in 1997 the number of people in poverty

decreased to 35.6 million people. Since a decade ago the poverty level has increased from

32.4 million people to as high as 39.3 million in 1993, but since 1993 the number of

people living in poverty has decreased to 35.6 million people.

The percent of the population a decade ago below the poverty was 13.1%, which

has increases up to 15.1% but here recently the poverty rate is back down to 13.3%

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Poverty On The Rise?

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