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The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens. NYU Press. ISBN 978-1479874729. Harrington, Michael (1962). The Other America. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-684-82678-3. Haymes, Stephen, Maria Vidal de Haymes and Reuben Miller (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States. Routledge, 2015. ISBN 0415673445.
As of the mid- to late- decade of the 2000s, the most common explanation for income inequality in America was "skill-biased technological change" (SBTC) [54] – "a shift in the production technology that favors skilled over unskilled labor by increasing its relative productivity and, therefore, its relative demand". [55]
Specifically, the poverty rate, in 2019, was most notable in the younger age category of 18 to 24 years old, of which 17.1% were males versus 21.35% females. [60] Children were, as a group, most affected by poverty between the period, 1990 and 2018. Between 2000 and 2010, the poverty rate increased. A dip of 14.4% was later noted in 2019. [61]
The United States Census Bureau says that persistent poverty occurs when a geographic region has a poverty rate of 20%+ for 30+ years. As of the bureau’s last report, nearly 11% of the nation ...
Causes included executive pay trends and the financialization of the economy. [5] For example, CEO pay expanded from around 30 times the typical worker pay in 1980 to nearly 350 times by 2007. From 1978 to 2018, CEO compensation grew 940% adjusted for inflation, versus 12% for the typical worker. [33]
As the U.S. poverty level sees its largest increase in history, a state by state comparison is revealing to understanding American poverty The Surprising Poverty Levels Across the U.S. Skip to ...
Poverty in America has increased in the past few years. According to Debt.org, roughly 37.9 million or 11.5% of Americans live in poverty. The Census Bureau reported that as recently as 2023, a ...
The definition of relative poverty varies from one country to another, or from one society to another. [2] Statistically, as of 2019, most of the world's population live in poverty: in PPP dollars, 85% of people live on less than $30 per day, two-thirds live on less than $10 per day, and 10% live on less than $1.90 per day. [3]