{"id":1044,"date":"2012-09-13T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2012-09-13T00:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T04:32:13","slug":"poverty-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/poverty-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/poverty-2011.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1050 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/poverty-2011.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"779\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/poverty-2011.png 779w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/poverty-2011-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/poverty-2011-462x300.png 462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/2012pubs\/p60-243.pdf\">data<\/a> just released by the U.S. Census Bureau, 15% of the population lives in poverty, that is 46.2 million of people. Those numbers are not statistically different from the 2010 estimates. In 2011 the poverty threshold for a family of four was $23,021.<\/p>\n<p>The poverty rate for males decreased between 2010 and 2011 to 13.6%, and remained the same for females at 16.3%. The poverty rate for Hispanics declined between 2010 and 2011. By age, the group with the highest poverty rate was that of children under 18 at a rate of 21.9%. By region, the only region to show a significant change was the South with a decline in the poverty rate from 16.8% to 16.0%. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/2012pubs\/p60-243.pdf\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Poverty in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/poverty-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Poverty in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/poverty-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Poverty in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/poverty-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Poverty in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/poverty-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to data just released by the U.S. Census Bureau, 15% of the population lives in poverty, that is 46.2 million of people. Those numbers are not statistically different from the 2010 estimates. In 2011 the poverty threshold for a family of four was $23,021. The poverty rate for males decreased between 2010 and 2011 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook' st_title='Poverty in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/poverty-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span st_via='indexmundi' st_username='indexmundi' class='st_twitter' st_title='Poverty in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/poverty-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_email' st_title='Poverty in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/poverty-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='email'><\/span><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='Poverty in the U.S.' st_url='https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/09\/13\/poverty-in-the-u-s\/' displayText='sharethis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,29,14],"tags":[185,365,364,363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexmundi.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}