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  2. Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The highest poverty rates in the United States are in the U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands). [69] American Samoa has the lowest per capita income in the United States — it has a per capita income comparable to that of Botswana. [70]

  3. American lower class - Wikipedia

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    Working class as well as working poor households may fall below the poverty line if an income earner becomes unemployed. [1] [4] In any given year roughly one out of every five (20%) households falls below the poverty line at some point while up to 40% may fall into poverty within the course of a decade. [3]

  4. Poverty and health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A 2023 study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that cumulative poverty of 10+ years is the fourth leading risk factor for mortality in the United States, associated with almost 300,000 deaths per year. A single year of poverty was associated with 183,000 deaths in 2019, making it the seventh leading risk factor ...

  5. Map: These US states have the highest rates of long-term poverty

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    Between 1989 and 2019, 19.4 million people lived in areas of persistent poverty, according to a report by the US Census Bureau. Persistent poverty can be defined as an area that has consistently ...

  6. Poverty, by America - Wikipedia

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    Matthews states that by any measure of poverty in the United States, absolute or relative, poverty has been reduced, and the only measure of poverty which does not demonstrate this is the Census Bureau's Official Poverty Measure (OPM), a measure widely regarded as extremely flawed because it fails to include non-cash poverty reduction programs ...

  7. Socioeconomic mobility in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hence, social mobility is the deferred offspring of many welfare states including the United States due to their low public spending incentives. Studies conducted on education spending in the United States have shown that as compared to the private funding of education, only 2.7% of the nation's total GDP is spent towards public education. [87]

  8. The Truly Disadvantaged - Wikipedia

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    The book was first published in 1987; a second edition was published in 2012. [1] It examines the relationship between race and poverty in the United States, and the history of American inner-city ghettos. The broad-ranging book rejects both conservative and liberal arguments for the social conditions in American inner cities. [1]

  9. The Other America - Wikipedia

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    The Other America: Poverty in the United States is Michael Harrington's best known and likely most influential book. He was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator, and founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America .