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Oct 25, 2020 · With the fading effects of the recession, the US poverty rate was at 11.8% in early 2020, right before the current Coronavirus pandemic. One group that is most vulnerable to poverty, however, are female-headed households, who consistently comprise 50% of all households living in poverty.
- Yoshie Sano, Sheila Mammen, Myah Houghten
- 2021
- People Versus Place
- Individual Versus Structural Explanations
- Are The Causes of Rural Poverty Different?
- Poverty and Inequality
Poor people may be found anywhere, but where there are large clusters of impoverished persons, a place, however, defined may be classified as poor. In the U.S. as previously described, there are historical clusters of poor places—nonmetro counties with chronically high poverty rates reaching from the past into the present (Weber & Miller, 2017). Of...
The above description begins to capture an even more fundamental and pervasive distinction in poverty theory: individual versus structural level theories. Individual-level theories look to the individual for causes. Particular behaviors, beliefs, values, practices, motivations, investments, etc. have been argued to be characteristic of poor persons...
These theories apply very generally at least to advanced industrial and postindustrial economies such as the U.S. It is the configuration of factors that will vary by place. Just as students of urban poverty identify a constellation of neighborhood effects that they argue are unique to inner city poverty and residents (Wilson, 1996, 2012), rural po...
Across the U.S., growing inequality matches poverty in cause for concern as well as supplying a connection to ongoing poverty that is sometimes hypothesized as causal. It is not entirely clear how rural income and wealth inequality compare nationally and to metro areas. There is some evidence that income inequality as measured by the Gini coefficie...
- Ann R. Tickamyer
- art14@psu.edu
- 2020
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Aug 26, 2023 · Many rural households cannot achieve average agricultural output due to poor resources, and livelihood activities are severely affected, with limited long-term options that keep people's per capita incomes below the poverty line. 1 At the same time, the lack of nutritional needs, access to education, and participation in community social ...
- 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19513
- 2023/09
- Heliyon. 2023 Sep; 9(9): e19513.
Apr 2, 2024 · Overview. Around 700 million people live on less than $2.15 per day, the extreme poverty line. Extreme poverty remains concentrated in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, fragile and conflict-affected areas, and rural areas. After decades of progress, the pace of global poverty reduction began to slow by 2015, in tandem with subdued economic growth.
Mar 1, 2023 · Families in households with low incomes are diverse. In 2021, among these families: Just over half (51%) were two-parent families, either married (43%) or cohabiting (8%). Most (80%) lived on their own. However, 12 percent lived with a grandparent and 8 percent with someone other than a grandparent. White families made up 34 percent of the ...
According to World Bank data, in 1990 there were 2.00 billion people living in poverty, and in 2019 that had fallen to 0.648 billion. The average fall over the 29 years in between is: (2.00 billion – 0.648 billion)/29 = 46.6 million.
Jun 10, 2020 · Poverty in rural areas is more prevalent (28.8 percent) than in urban areas (11.6 percent). However, the level of poverty in the region has significantly declined from 30.5 percent in 2010/11 to 26.1 percent in 2016. The food poverty situation in the region is also critical.
