Who is poor in the United States

Session 3

This session starts out with statistics (from the census) of which age group is more affected by poverty and later compares the races and gender.

Historically over the last 20 years, the children, blacks and black females precisely have the highest percentage of poverty. On the contrary, elderly people over 65 have had the lowest rate of poverty. Also interesting statistic I noted was that "more than 1 in every 3 poor people in 2005 were children". This shows that one third of poor people were born into poverty. Also blacks and hispanics have the highest recorded poverty rates in the United States, especially the females.


Session 4

This sessions further elaborates on the geographic areas of poverty and where concentrated poverty exists more. The southern region of the U.S. historically has had the highest percentage of poverty rate. I had an idea to a certain extent due to factors including higher paying jobs, more skilled jobs and higher standard of living in other parts of the country. The session further proves that blacks and hispanics have the highest percentage of poverty rate and live in the concentrated poverty areas more as compared to whites.