In USA there are poverty ?

Answer 1

Poverty is a relative term and can't be defined by comparing one Americans accumulation of Stuff to another Americans accumulation, Almost everyone in the U.S. has a television, a car, indoor plumbing, adequate heating, food to eat, clothing to wear,access to educational facility's and job opportunities.

If you were to compare the low income families to the wealthiest families in the U.S. you might believe that poverty is rampant in the U.S. but, if you make a comparison between what we have to what people in third world countries have you will find that the people in the USA, even the poorest of the poor, are wealthy.

Answer 2

Yup. I live in poverty. Out of the 300 milllion people that live in the united stated 1% holds all of the nations money the middle class is slowly decreasing making the gap between poor and rich bigger. 70 percent of americans live pay check to pay check

If we dont fix this we are gonna be like mexico.... Your eaither really rich or really poor

Answer 3

yes there is, in almost every major city there are poor, in every suburb there are poor.
The democrats launched us into a multi-trillion dollar war on poverty some 40 years ago. Statistically, there are more people in poverty now than prior, its an utter failure, we now have generations of people on welfare. You'll never hear any democrat EVER talk about defunding that war.
The top 1% of wage earners in the US pay about 70-80% of the taxes. Much of this stuff a child will NEVER hear in publik skool.

Answer 4

Very, very much so. People don't starve to death here, or die of complications due to malnutrition, but we are only one step above that. So, in that sense our poverty standard is one step higher that other parts of the world, but a large portion of our population is only just above this. A part of this is the mass availability of very inexpensive, low-quality, no-nutrition foods available everywhere in the US, whereas in most poor countries this type of food is unavailable or very expensive. Take potato chips, for example.

Answer 5

yeah 60 miles south of Oprah's filming studio. How to properly spell Louisiana. I think it's like 1/3 of america's population are at or below poverty line.

Answer 6

Yes.
All you have to do is go to a place run by liberal democrats -
New Orleans, Louisiana;
Washington D.C.;
Detroit -
and you'll find plenty of poor people.

And then you look people who create children they cannot afford to take care of versus people who reproduce responsibly, and once again you will see a lot of poverty.

Let the thumbs down fly.

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Answer 7

HIGHLIGHTS

The official poverty rate in 2004 was 12.7 percent, up from 12.5 percent 2003.

In 2004, 37.0 million people were in poverty, up 1.1 million from 2003.

Poverty rates remained unchanged for Blacks (24.7 percent) and Hispanics (21.9 percent), rose for non-Hispanic Whites (8.6 percent in 2004, up from 8.2 percent in 2003) and decreased for Asians (9.8 percent in 2004, down from 11.8 percent in 2003).

The poverty rate in 2004 (12.7 percent) was 9.7 percentage points lower than in 1959, the first year for which poverty estimates are available (Figure 3). From the most recent trough in 2000 both the number and rate have risen for four consecutive years, from 31.6 million and 11.3 percent in 2000, to 37.0 million and 12.7 percent in 2004 respectively.

For children under 18 years old, both the 2004 poverty rate (17.8 percent) and the number in poverty (13.0 million) remained unchanged from 2003. The poverty rate for children under 18 remained higher than that of 18-to-64-year olds (11.3 percent) and that of people aged 65 and over (9.8 percent).

Both the poverty rate and number in poverty increased for people 18 to 64 years old (11.3 percent and 20.5 million in 2004, up from 10.8 percent and 19.4 million in 2003).

The poverty rate decreased for seniors aged 65 and over was 9.8 percent in 2004, down from 10.2 percent in 2003, while the number in poverty in 2004 (3.5 million) was unchanged.

Answer 8

Yes, more than the government and weathier people are willing to admit. You could probably google for actual statistics.

Answer 9

Yeah, there is, and one of the reasons is people who do not educate themselves well enough to write a sentence that people can understand!

Answer 10

sure is, Go to Loisianna and see for yourself