Who are the Poor?

The US poverty rate when first measured in 1959 was 22.4%. The rate declined during the 1960s.  Since then, however, poverty has consistently been between 10% and 15%. The most recent official poverty measure  estimates that 11.4% of the US population, 37.2 million people, were poor in 2020. In 2018, poverty in the US was set as an annual income less than $25,465 for a family of four with two adults and two children. This measure takes into account the cost of . . .