This Is What Poverty in America Looks Like
According a recent study by Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin, more than 1.5 million families in 2011 were bringing in $2 or less in cash income per person per day. Beyond that, more than 6% of the U.S. population have a household cash income that’s less than 50% of the federal poverty threshold. For perspective on that income: In 2015, the deep poverty threshold was an annual cash income of less than $5,885 for an individual, $7,965 for a single-parent with one child, or $12,125 for a married couple with two kids. Compare this to the median income of the country: $52,000 in 2013.The study shows that there is a large group of people in the U.S. living on next to nothing. Statistically, one of the largest groups in poverty is children. Of the 6% of the U.S. population living in deep poverty, 7.1 million are children. Brookings says that over 10% of children younger than 6 live in families in deep poverty. While Brookings notes that the typical person in deep poverty is born in the U.S., young, white, and living in a family, it should be noted that 10% and 12% of black Americans and Hispanics, respectively, are in deep poverty, while only 5% of whites fall into that bracket. And individuals and single-mother families are at greatest risk of falling into deep poverty.
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