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• Poverty in the United States

  Poverty rate for African Americans: 26.1 percent ? Poverty rate for Asians and Pacific Islanders: 12.5 percent ? Poverty rate for Hispanics of any race: 25.6 percent ?

• This post addresses a poverty analysis at www.census.gov.

  -- "The official poverty rate in 2010 was 15.1 percent, up from 14.3 percent in 2009. This was the third consecutive annual increase in the poverty rate.

• Market Failure: Poverty and Income Inequality

  For Asians, the 2010 poverty rate (12.1 percent) was not statistically different from the 2009 poverty rate.1 - The poverty rate in 2010 (15.1 percent) was the highest poverty rate since 1993 but was 7.3 percentage points lower than the poverty rate

• Poverty, Poverty Line, Poverty Rate and combat poverty

  321454 Poverty, Poverty Line, Poverty Rate and combat poverty Go to the following Web site, www.census.gov, and select Poverty. Then use the information on this site to answer the following questions: 1) What is the official poverty line?

• Poverty Level and School Passage Rate

  With the increase in the ''school's poverty level", the "passage rate'' decreases and vice versa. This solution addresses the three questions in 125 words.

• Cash vs in-kind transfers

  425374 The poverty rate and the effects of in-kind transfers. The poverty rate would be substantially lower if the market value of in-kind transfers were added family income.

• The U.S. Poverty Issue

  The poverty rate was reduced from 22 percent in 1960 to 11.2 percent in 1974. Hello and welcome to Brain Mass today.

• Sociological Imagination - Individual Experiences and Social Impact

  In terms of gender, for example, poverty strikes women at a higher rate than it does men.

• Disparity in income in different parts of the same neighborhoods

  In the United States, the causes of high rates of poverty are lack of sufficiently high levels of education, a culture of poverty, and a high divorce rate.