Statistici adevarate despre USA
Down for the Count
Facts and figures on poverty in the United States
By Sarah Kraybill
13 Feb 2006
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Statistici adevarate despre USA
Down for the Count
Facts and figures on poverty in the United States
By Sarah Kraybill
13 Feb 2006
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$35,000 -- basic-needs budget for a U.S. family of four (two adults, two children), as calculated in An Atlas of Poverty in America 1
$19,157 -- poverty line for a family of four (two adults, two children) in the U.S. in 2004, as established by the U.S. Census Bureau 2
More Americans are feeling the squeeze.
Photo: iStockphoto.$19,000 -- amount spent by Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's wife Columba during a five-day shopping spree in Paris in 1999 3
12.7 -- percentage of U.S. citizens living below the poverty line in 2004 (37 million people) 4
8.6 -- percentage of non-Hispanic Caucasians living below the poverty level in 2004 4
9.8 -- percentage of Asians living below the poverty level in 2004 4
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21.9 -- percentage of Hispanics living below the poverty level in 2004 4
24.3 -- percentage of Native Americans living below the poverty level in 2004 4
24.7 -- percentage of African Americans living below the poverty level in 2004 4
$84,044 -- average per capita personal income in New York County, N.Y., the most affluent county in the nation, in 2003 5
Introduction to the series.
How environmentalism got its elitist tinge.
Photos of Louisiana towns battered by Katrina.
A look at the poultry farms ravaging the South.
How coal mining has scarred the hills of Appalachia.
A virtual walking tour of the polluted South Bronx.
More stories on poverty & the environment.
Join the discussion$10,805 -- average per capita personal income in Starr County, Texas, the least affluent county in the nation, in 2003 6
$11,354 -- average cost per year of tuition, fees, room, and board at a four-year public college in 2004-05 7
16 -- percentage by which real wages have increased in the last 30 years for workers with some college education 1
19 -- percentage by which real wages have declined in the last 30 years for workers with less than a high-school education 1
$51,138 -- median annual income of a white man with a bachelor's degree in 2003 8
$41,916 -- median annual income of a black man with a bachelor's degree in 2003 8
$33,142 -- median annual income of a black woman with a bachelor's degree in 2003 8
$30,082 -- median annual income of a white woman with a bachelor's degree in 2003 8
24 -- percentage of the workforce in low-wage jobs (under $9 per hour) 9
46.8 -- percentage of Americans aged 65 or older who would have had incomes below the poverty line without Social Security benefits, from 2000 to 2002 10
8.7 -- percentage of Americans aged 65 or older who did have incomes below the poverty line, even with Social Security benefits, from 2000 to 2002 10
8.6 -- percentage of children living in poverty in 2003 in New Hampshire, the state with the fewest impoverished children in the U.S. 1
31.2 -- percentage of children living in poverty in 2003 in Arkansas, the state with the most impoverished children in the nation 1
169,000 -- minimum number of housing units in Appalachia that had no plumbing in 2000, the latest year for which statistics are available 1
32.7 -- percentage of net worth in the United States controlled by the top 1 percent of the population, in 2001 11
$46.5 billion -- net worth of the richest person in the world, Bill Gates, in 2005 12
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