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The 12th Amendment to the Constitution eliminates slavery throughout the United States. The downfall of this is AfricanAmericans are unable to emigrate in the same numbers due to discriminatory land policies and their extreme poverty.
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In the late 1950s, the poverty rate was approximately 22 percent, with just shy of 40 million Americans living in poverty. The rate declined steadily, reaching a low of 11.1 percent in 1973
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Since the federal government adopted a standard definition of poverty in the 1960s, scholars, politicians, the media, and the public have used poverty as a measure of the strength and success of government policy and the economy. https://youtu.be/Bcs6se5ONY4
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Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of a “War on Poverty” ushered in a new era of anti-poverty programs, the underlying assumption of which was still to address the pathology of individuals through education, skills training, and job creation.
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Orshansky presented the poverty thresholds as a measure of income inadequacy, not of income adequacy — "if it is not possible to state unequivocally 'how much is enough,' it should be possible to assert with confidence how much, on an average, is too little."
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The poverty rate for people 65 or older has fallen dramatically. The out-of-pocket health care cost lowered for this age group.
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Census Bureau introduced the SPM to reflect long-term changes in government policies that altered disposable income available to families and therefore their poverty status.
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In the United States, 11.8% of the population or 38.1 million people, live in poverty — with an income of less than $33.26 per day — according to the 2018 census. https://youtu.be/6KC56Ik-DYY
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The craziest, most tragic time in history began here. The start of 2020 Coronavirus took over the entire causing thousand and thousand and thousands of people to get sick. Meaning people in poverty were really affected due to unemployment,which means s=o many more supplies that are needed is limited.
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The new target is to have no more than 3 percent of the world's population living on just $1.90 a day by 2030.
