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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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    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. 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]

  6. 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 ...

  7. NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Sunday, December 15

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    Spoilers ahead! We've warned you. We mean it. Read no further until you really want some clues or you've completely given up and want the answers ASAP. Get ready for all of today's NYT ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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]