- 15pc of Americans now living in poverty http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-14/more-americans-living-in-poverty/2898076 3 comments politics
- Census: 1 in 7 Americans live in poverty http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/09/census-1-7-americans-live-poverty/ 3 comments politics
- Why are so many American college students living in poverty? https://www.msnbc.com/velshi-ruhle/watch/why-are-so-many-american-college-students-living-in-poverty-60046405955 32 comments politics
- Census: 1 in 7 Americans live in poverty! (yahoo news) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100916/ap_on_bi_ge/us_census_poverty 7 comments reddit.com
- Poverty in the United States: More than a quarter of African-Americans and Hispanic Americans live in poverty. Women at all age ranges have higher poverty rates than men. http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/09/poverty-in-the-united-states.html#more 5 comments politics
- 48 million Americans live in poverty, Census Bureau says http://money.cnn.com/2014/10/16/news/economy/48-million-americans-poverty-census-bureau/index.html 81 comments economy
- 46.2 million Americans are officially living in poverty, Census says http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/income_wealth/cb12-172.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+counterparties+%28counterparties%29 356 comments politics
- Nikki Haley: 'Ridiculous' for UN to analyze poverty in America. UN reports 40 million live in poverty in the USA and 40% of Americans don't have 400 USD in savings http://thehill.com/policy/international/un-treaties/393659-nikki-haley-ridiculous-for-un-to-analyze-poverty-in-america 9864 comments worldnews
- Poverty alone does not seem to explain the differences: poor white boys do just as well as African-American boys who do not live in poverty http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/education/09gap.html 159 comments science
- Nearly half of American children living near poverty line http://monetarywatch.com/2016/03/nearly-half-of-american-children-living-near-poverty-line/ 3 comments economy
- Record 46.2 million Americans live in poverty, 49.9 million have no healthcare, Census Bureau says http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/09/record-462-million-americans-in-poverty-census-bureau-says.html 85 comments politics
- Households On Foodstamps Rise To New Record High: More Americans Live In Poverty Than The Population Of Spain http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-08/households-foodstamps-rise-new-record-high-more-americans-live-poverty-population-sp 4 comments politics
- One in six Americans are living in poverty, the highest of any major industrialized nation http://www.thepelicanpost.org/2011/09/22/one-in-five-louisianans-live-below-the-poverty-line/ 63 comments economy
- Death of the American Dream: Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10904805 17 comments politics
- Putting Poverty on the Agenda | "When you have 1 in 7 Americans living in poverty, 1 in 5 children living in poverty—-including 1 in 3 African-American children and Latino children--and it's not on America's radar, something's very wrong." http://www.thenation.com/blog/157759/putting-poverty-agenda 54 comments politics
- 12 million Americans Are Living on less than 2$ a day- A threshold commonly used to measure poverty of third world countries http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/06/books/review/2-00-a-day-by-kathryn-j-edin-and-h-luke-shaefer.html?_r=2 160 comments politics
- "Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near-poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream." http://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-4-5-us-face-175906005.html 10 comments politics
- One in three Americans lives in poverty or close to it. If the country does not change direction, more Americans will be struggling. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/opinion/the-poor-the-near-poor-and-you.html 23 comments politics
- Conservative think tank: 30 million Americans living in poverty aren't THAT poor because they have so many microwaves http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/07/30-million-in-poverty-arent-as-poor-as-you-think-says-heritage-foundation/242191/ 14 comments politics
- 14 percent of all Americans live in poverty, the largest number of Americans living under the poverty line ever http://www.good.is/post/in-america-11-000-a-year-is-not-poor/?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=outbrain 50 comments politics
- Poverty in America likely to get worse, report finds. Indiana University study says 46 million Americans are living below the poverty line – up 27% since start of recession http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/11/poverty-america-likely-worse-report?newsfeed=true 7 comments economy
- 1 in 5 American children is living in poverty, defined as less than $20,000 per year for a family of four. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/us/11poverty.html?_r=1&hp1 5 comments politics
- The bottom 1% of Americans live at or below the national poverty lines of such countries as Ghana, Congo, and Mongolia. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-30/taking-aim-at-the-gops-war-on-the-poor 27 comments politics
- Disgusting: "In the United States, the wealthiest country in the world, 36 million Americans live in poverty - earning less than $20,650 for a family of four in 2007." http://spotlightonpoverty.org/why_spotlight_poverty.aspx 82 comments reddit.com
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said billionaires shouldn't exist as long as Americans live in abject poverty https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-thinks-billionaires-shouldnt-exist-2019-1?utm_content=buffera0d80&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-bi 400 comments politics
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said billionaires shouldn't exist as long as Americans live in abject poverty https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-thinks-billionaires-shouldnt-exist-2019-1 28 comments politics
- Republicans Just Won the Food Stamp War Congress is set to approve $9 billion in cuts to the food stamp program even as a record number of Americans live in poverty. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/republicans-won-food-stamps-farm-bill 2615 comments politics
- One in six Americans lives in poverty, new census data reveals — much higher than official rate http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/poverty-america-affects-residents-article-1.1508965 9 comments politics
- Cory Booker proposes bill to fight neglected diseases of poverty - Stop bill is first in the US to focus exclusively on illnesses that impair the lives of up to 12 million Americans https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/oct/23/cory-booker-neglected-diseases-poverty-stop-act 3 comments politics
- The Real Numbers: Half of America in Poverty -- and It's Creeping toward 75% - The Census Bureau has reported that one out of six Americans lives in poverty. A shocking figure. But it's actually much worse. http://www.alternet.org/economy/real-numbers-half-america-poverty-and-its-creeping-toward-75-0?utm_source=feedly 27 comments politics
- Obama avoids the P-word - Say it with me now “Poverty.” ... For a record 46 million Americans, including 22 percent of all children, that’s what they are living in" http://www.thenation.com/blog/165906/week-poverty-state-union-state-florida 6 comments politics
- US Poverty Whoever Wins The Mid-Terms, The Nation Is Losing — In 2009, 43.6 million Americans lived on $5,500 a year. That’s $15 a day. The number of people out of work for more than six months has never been this high, near 50 per cent. http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/297693 3 comments politics
- In 2010, our nation owed more money to others than it did before, more Americans had no jobs than before, more Americans had been foreclosed on, more poverty shortened more lives, more people lived without homes, and Wall Street saw more profits than before coming from the public treasury. http://www.antemedius.com/content/year-fall-and-decline 3 comments politics
- The New War on Inequality: Just Rhetoric? Those Americans struggling against poverty in the 1960s had plenty of obstacles in their way. We have more. They operated in a functioning democracy. We live, by contrast, in deeply plutocratic times. http://toomuchonline.org/the-new-war-on-inequality-just-rhetoric/ 4 comments politics
- 42 percent of American children live in low-income homes and about a fifth live in poverty. The number of children living in poverty has risen 33 percent since 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/opinion/25blow.html?_r=1&ref=opinion 25 comments politics
- Close to a presidential announcement, Martin O'Malley said Wednesday that many Americans living in cities are worse off than they were eight years ago and Democrats in Washington wasted a chance to address poverty in the nation's urban areas. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/u/us_dem_2016_omalley?site=ap&section=home&template=default&ctime=2015-05-13-03-18-30 7 comments politics
- There Are Far More Americans Living in Poverty Now: About 20.5 million Americans, or 6.7 percent of the U.S. population, make up the poorest poor, defined as those at 50 percent or less of the official poverty level http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/11/there-are-more-poorer-americans-nows/44487/ 32 comments politics
- Suffer the Little Children - According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 42 percent of American children live in low-income homes and about a fifth live in poverty. It gets worse. The number of children living in poverty has risen 33 percent since 2000. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/opinion/25blow.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a212 14 comments politics
- Census: 1 in 7 Americans lives in poverty. Republicans just fine with that, God forbid that in order to help the American poor, the richest 2% forfeit their yearly tax-break Ferraris, their slave nannies, and their tri-weekly "off-the-plan" therapy sessions. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_census_poverty;_ylt=autvu602amhwbgkhzzmyvp1bbbaf;_ylu=x3odmtj2azhxade2bgfzc2v0ay9zl2fwl3vzx2nlbnn1c19wb3zlcnr5bgnjb2rla21wx2vjxzhfmtaey3bvcwmxbhbvcwmxbhnlywn5bl90b3bfc3rvcmllcwrzbgsdy2vuc3vzmwlun2ft 9 comments reddit.com
- Chris Hedges: More than 100 million Americans—one-third of the population—live in poverty or a category called “near poverty.” Yet the stories of the poor and the near poor are rarely told by a media owned by a handful of corporations—Viacom, General Electric, News Corp., Clear Channel and Disney. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/rise_up_or_die_20130519// 163 comments politics