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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. List of U.S. states and territories by poverty rate - Wikipedia

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    All people in poverty. Percent. 2021. US Department of Agriculture (USDA). [2] All people in poverty (2021) Children ages 0-17 in poverty (2021) 90% confidence interval of estimate 90% confidence interval of estimate States and D.C. Percent Lower Bound Upper Bound Percent Lower Bound Upper Bound National: 12.8 12.7 12.9 16.9 16.7 17.1 Alabama ...

  4. Poverty and health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Poverty and health are intertwined in the United States. [1] As of 2019, 10.5% of Americans were considered in poverty , according to the U.S. Government's official poverty measure. People who are beneath and at the poverty line have different health risks than citizens above it, as well as different health outcomes.

  5. Poverty in the U.S. increased last year, even as incomes rose ...

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    The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Poverty - Wikipedia

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    Each nation has its own threshold for absolute poverty line; in the United States, for example, the absolute poverty line was US$15.15 per day in 2010 (US$22,000 per year for a family of four), [22] while in India it was US$1.0 per day [23] and in China the absolute poverty line was US$0.55 per day, each on PPP basis in 2010. [24]

  8. Article One of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    Though never enforced, clause 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that "when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for president and vice president of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male ...

  9. If You’re Poor, Does It Even Matter Who Becomes President?

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    In January 1964, then-President Lyndon B. Johnson asked in a State of the Union address that Congress declare an "unconditional war on poverty." He instructed Congress "not only to relieve the ...