They include the notion that poverty affects a relatively small number of Americans, that the
poor are impoverished for years at a time, that most of those in poverty live in inner cities …

Poverty in America: Why Can't We End It? Page 1 Georgetown University Law Center
Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2012 Poverty in America: Why Can't We End It? Peter …

The United States currently has among the highest rates of poverty in the Western world. 1
Whether one looks at the overall rate of poverty or rates for particular groups, whether one …

" This volume is an excellent overview of the dimensions and sources of American poverty.
John Iceland combines statistical data, theoretical arguments, and historical information in a …

The problem is not lack of attention, and it's not mainly lack of money. Since 1980 federal
antipoverty spending has exploded. As Robert Samuelson of The Washington Post has …

This report illustrates how poverty rates in the United States vary by selected characteristics:
age, race and Hispanic origin, nativity, family composition, work experience, and geography …

This report discusses the results of a 1989 poll conducted by the Gallup Organization in
which a representative sample of Americans were asked where they would set the poverty …

While overall poverty levels are low by historical standards, the increase in poverty this year
has been swift. It is the biggest jump in a single year since the government began tracking …

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 The proportion of Americans living in poverty rose significantly last
year, increasing for the first time in eight years, the Census Bureau reported today. At the …

If poverty means lacking nutritious food, adequate warm housing, and clothing for a family,
relatively few of the 35 million people identified as being “in poverty” by the Census Bureau …