Sunday, July 23, 2017

43 MILLION IN POVERTY

In 2015, the last year for which data are available, 43.1 million people—13.5 percent of the population—were considered to be in poverty, defined as falling below an annual income threshold of $24,257 for a family of four.


"America: The Forgotten Poor," Jeff Madrick, New York Review of Books, June 22, 2017, pp. 49-50.