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  2. Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mink, Gwendolyn, and Alice O'Connor, eds. Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy (ABC-CLIO 2004). Patterson, James T. (2000) America's Struggle against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (Harvard UP, 2000) online. Prasad, Monica (2012). The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty.

  3. Causes of poverty - Wikipedia

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    The number of people living in relative poverty, across the country, tends to vary from state to state, e.g. in California (in 2018), 4.66 million people lived in poverty versus in Minnesota with about 456,000 people that lived in poverty. [61] The causes of relative poverty in the US are complex and revolve around the following:

  4. Why Certain States Have Experienced the Most Poverty ... - AOL

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    It's a sad truth: Widespread poverty isn't a new or fleeting problem. Across decades governed by both Democratic and Republican presidents, 11%-14% of American citizens consistently struggled to...

  5. Poverty, by America - Wikipedia

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    Poverty, by America is a sociological analysis of poverty and its causes in the United States.Desmond's central thesis is that wealthy Americans, even those who would otherwise consider themselves progressive, tacitly benefit from government policies that keep people in poverty.

  6. Why voters bear some blame for the jump in child poverty - AOL

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    In its annual report on the well-being of Americans, the Census Bureau reported an unprecedented jump in poverty rates, including child poverty. The portion of Americans living below the poverty ...

  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. How Much Money in the Bank Makes You Poor? - AOL

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    The concept of being "poor" is often seen as a black-and-white, yes-or-no state of being. You're either poor or you're not. However, the reality is that poverty exists on a spectrum, and where you...

  9. Culture of poverty - Wikipedia

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    The culture of poverty emerges as a key concept in Michael Harrington's discussion of American poverty in The Other America. [6] For Harrington, the culture of poverty is a structural concept defined by social institutions of exclusion that create and perpetuate the cycle of poverty in America.

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