What does 11.9% below poverty level mean?

Question

I'm doing a project for class where we hav to analyze a state, Mine is Illinoise.

One of the questions is the below poverty level line, I looked it up on a govt site, Is 12% of the population of IL. really that poor.

On the tabel I looked at I saw that Missisipi was around 22. WTF

Answer 1

Yes it is possible and true, this administarion and President have left amny more behind with its obsession for war and not focusing on our domestic issues.

The poverty level is established by the gov't and is the minimum a family can live on

I do not know the US income level that is considered the poverty line, but I'll use an amount I think is close.

Let's say for a family of 4 the poverty level is $22,000 per year in income, that means that 11.9% of Illinois people make less then $22K and 22% in Mississippi do. If you have ever been to MS or AL, that is not hard to see.

Hope this helped ya!

Answer 2

Poverty in government terms is a house hold making less than $11 an hour full time. (that info was about a year ago). So 12% of a population makes less than that. So more than 1 out of ten. Chances are they are on welfare and still able to live.

Answer 3

You have to remember that is an income level the Govnt has said "below this" is "poor" . These numbers may be estamates.. or only what is reported.. if you are not paying Taxes, the Govn't doesnt know how much you make or if you are "poor"

Also notice that some places you can live on a lot less than you can in others...

If this is for a project check out www.giveusyourpoor.org

Answer 4

The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living. The definition of poverty, the poverty level, is determined by the government.

Which means that roughly 12% of the population doesn't reach the minimum level of income to achieve an adequate standard of living.

Answer 5

poverty level is an imaginary number which has been set by the government and i believe it is 13000.00 dollars so about 11280.00 is 12 percent below the poverty level and it is not at all surprising considering the demographics of Illinois or Mississippi. or Arkansas.this means the annual income of 12 percent or 22 percent or whatever is below this level.

Answer 6

It means that 11,900 people per. 100,000 earn less then the national average earnings to be in poverty. I think that to below poverty level you need to make less then 28k a year. Its also based on the cost of living per. state how many kids depend-its people have and other factors. You should be able to take the population of you state and find out what your state average earnings are and the amount of people below that should give you your state average. I hope that makes sense.

Answer 7

Very unusual use of documents. If the poverty point is $10,000 earnings consistent with 3 hundred and sixty 5 days for a relatives of four, somebody earning $15,000 is making 50% above the poverty point. earning $20,000 is one hundred% above the point. earning $30,000 is two hundred% extra suitable than the poverty point. earning $5,000 is 50% below the poverty point. If somebody earns 0, we would possibly in no way say that he earns one hundred% below the poverty point. If he's 185% below the poverty point, it does not make any sense. he's unfavorable.

Answer 8

What is even WORSE is that the poverty level is set by a political evaluation. Even someone who is doing better than 20% over the poverty level is pretty dam poor.

Answer 9

If defined as people below the low-income cutoff, then it would be true poverty but not necessarily extreme poverty.