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Credit for inventing the codes goes to Charles "Charlie" Hopper, communications director for the Illinois State Police, District 10 in Pesotum, Illinois. Hopper had been involved in radio for years and realized there was a need to abbreviate transmissions on State Police bands. [ 6 ]
Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2017. The US. In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. Based on poverty measures used by the Census Bureau (which exclude non-cash factors such as food stamps or medical care or public housing), America had 37 million people in poverty in 2023; this is 11 percent of population. [1]
The poverty rate in the United States, in 2019, was 10.5 percent, the reported lowest reported since 1959. [55] The poverty rate varies across racial lines and was reported to have reached "historic lows in 2019". For black Americans, the rate was about 18.8%; for white Americans (non-Hispanic), the rate was 7.3% and for Hispanics, it was 15.7%.
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 ...
Unlike most of the world, in the United States, all single-parent households have a higher risk for poverty. [9] The amount of earners present in a household also contributes to child poverty. Families with 2 or more earners will have more income and are less likely to have child poverty, and this is a trend seen globally. [9]
Within the impoverished population exists a wide range of real income, from less than US$2 a day, to the United States poverty threshold, [1] which is $22,350 in a year for a family of four. [9] Within impoverished populations, being relatively versus absolutely impoverished can determine health outcomes, in their severity and type of ailment.
[25] As of 2020, the federal poverty level for a family of four was $26,200. [26] Based on her research on poverty, Pennsylvania State University economic geographer Amy Glasmeier claims that when individuals live at, slightly above, or below the poverty line, unexpected expenses contribute to individuals reducing their food intake. [27]
In the past, the vast majority of the world population lived in conditions of extreme poverty. [8] [9] The percentage of the global population living in absolute poverty fell from over 80% in 1800 to around 10% by 2015. [10] According to UN estimates, in 2015 roughly 734 million people or 10% remained under those conditions. [11]