This explains why America's poverty rate did not fall despite an increase in median household income.
The child poverty rate climbed to 22%, nearly a quarter of all American children.
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The neighborhood faced a 25% poverty rate, mounting crime, and an extremely negative public perception.
Based on a household sample, INE estimated a poverty rate of 37% in 2008.
The poverty rate climbed to 15.1%, meaning nearly one in six Americans suffered in poverty.
The official poverty rate rose slightly, from 12.5% to 13.2%, bringing the total to 39.8m people.
The poverty rate among high-school dropouts is 12 times the rate for college graduates.
In addition, by 2000 the poverty rate of black children was the lowest it had ever been.
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And the poverty rate for elderly single women is 23% compared with just 5% for retired couples.
The video has a plethora of useful information, but the data on the poverty rate is particularly compelling.
So by the official poverty rate, the Asian-American poverty rate is higher than the non-Hispanic white poverty rate.
According to a National Academy of Science's analysis of census data, Asian-Americans have a 12.3 percent poverty rate.
And, finally, they also discovered that high rates of entrepreneurship are related to declines in the poverty rate.
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Thus one really cannot use the poverty rate over time as an interesting measure of anything at all.
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Per unit of growth, Brazil reduced its proportional poverty rate five times more than China or India did.
It should come as no surprise then that the poverty rate in Washington was 18.7% in 2011.
We know that the poverty rate is higher among single parent households than in families with married couples.
The single most important thing I can do to drive the poverty rate down is to grow the economy.
In both Massachusetts and Texas, the poverty rate has gone up since 1979.
Pre-mid-1970s the US poverty rate largely measured poverty as it was actually lived.
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There are now a record number of poor people in America, and the poverty rate has jumped to 15.1 percent.
The poverty rate in Johnson County is about 15 percent, but it's almost 20 percent among Pope County's 4, 400 residents.
For we do not include the effects of those three (laudable I might add) programs when measuring the poverty rate.
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She thinks the poverty rate will peak above 14% and stay as high as 13% for a decade or so.
Foreign investment has leveled off and although the poverty rate has been halved since 1990, it still stands at 18%.
Under MaxTax, Medicaid eligibility will be determined by one thing: whether a person makes less than 133% of the poverty rate.
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New York City's estimated poverty rate based on 2007-11 data was 19.4%.
Two-fifths of single mothers are poor, which triples the overall poverty rate.
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Progress against poverty as measured by the poverty rate then abruptly stopped.
Under the official measure, seniors have the lowest poverty rate at 9.0%.
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