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For statistical purposes (e.g., counting the poor population), the United States Census Bureau uses a set of annual income levels, the poverty thresholds, slightly different from the federal poverty guidelines. As with the poverty guidelines, they represent a federal government estimate of the point below which a household of a given size has ...
Net immigration from Mexico to the U.S. has stopped and possibly reversed since 2010. At its peak in 2000, about 770,000 immigrants arrived annually from Mexico; the majority arrived illegally. By 2010, the inflow had dropped to about 140,000—a majority of whom arrived as legal immigrants.
The nature of immigration policy dehumanizes individuals in mixed status families through practices that threat and harm, such as deportation procedures, which is when a migrant is formally removed from the United States and is banned from reentering. Immigration policies and practices do not only affect the undocumented population itself.
According to Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance. The Great Recession officially ended in mid-2009, but a recent Census Bureau report shows that, for the average American family, the first full ...
If the word "poverty" conjures up starving children in Africa, prepare to be shocked: nearly 40 million Americans, or 13.2% of the population in the richest country on the planet, lived at or ...
While the Great Recession caused the U.S. poverty rate to hit a 15-year peak, a longer trend has seen suburban poverty increasing. According to a new report from The Brookings Institution, a ...
Poverty rates by sex and work status for Americans aged 65 and over. The US Census declared that in 2014, 14.8% of the general population lived in poverty: [92] As of 2010 about half of those living in poverty are non-Hispanic white (19.6 million). [92] Non-Hispanic white children comprised 57% of all poor rural children. [93]
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