The Rising Poverty in America

In the United States,the number of people living in very poor areas has increased by one third during the last decade.Thus the new findings of The Brookings Institution,as quoted by Radio Australia.

It is said,poverty is an increasingly serious problem in the Midwest,where the number of people living in very poor communities almost two-fold.

In Detroit, almost 1 in 4 people living in poorer areas are defined as areas where at least 40-percent of the population live below the poverty line.

Farther south, communities in Texas and Louisiana recorded the largest increase in the number of serious poverty.

Brookings Institution estimates that between 2000 and 2010,very poor areas in the United States has been greater with more than 2-million people.
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Last September, the Census Bureau says the U.S. poverty rate slightly above 15 percent, or the number of poor people to be more than 46 million people nationwide.

The recession has raised the percentage of people living in poverty in the United States in 2010 to its highest level in seventeen years.

According to the Census Bureau as quoted by Voice of America, the poverty rate slightly above 15 percent, increased 0.7 percent from a year earlier. The total number rose to more than 46 million people nationwide.

The data show the poverty rate for African Americans is increasing faster than other people, ie more than 27 percent.

The U.S. government considers a family of four are classified as poor if their annual incomes below 22,314 U.S. dollars.

This report shows the impact of the wider recession, while household income on average fell more than 2 percent between 2009 and 2010 (to 49,445 U.S. dollars)