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NewsroomArchive The poverty rate increased for children younger than 18 (from 20.7 percent in 2009 to 22.0 percent in 2010) and people 18 to 64 (from 12.9 percent in 2009 to 13.7 percent in 2010), while it was not statistically different for people 65 and older (9.0 percent).
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If Your Minimum Wage Increase Doesn't Raise Unemployment, You Didn't Raise The Minimum Wage Enough The higher you set the minimum wage, the greater its positive effects on family income (for the bottom half of the income distribution) and poverty. In fact, the effects snowball; a $2 increase in the minimum wage does more than twice as much to augment incomes as a $1 increase does, because it affects more workers.
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Poverty in the United States In 2008, 13.2% (39.8 million) Americans lived in poverty. Starting in the 1980s, relative poverty rates have consistently exceeded those of other wealthy nations. California has a poverty rate of 23.8%, the highest of any state in the country. This is updated from the November 2012 estimate of 23.6.
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economics. fundamental finance .com Higher unemployment would certainly increase poverty and at the same time lead to more crime due to depression associated with being unemployed. Personal income per capita, which is inversely correlated with the poverty level, still may increase crime since greater wealth means greater benefits to thieves and robbers.
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U.S. poverty rate drops for first time since 2006 There's not much good news for working Americans struggling to rebound from the recession, except perhaps this: the U.S. poverty rate is finally on the decline. The nation's poverty rate fell to 14.5% in 2013, down from 15% a year earlier, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday. This is the first statistically significant drop in poverty since 2006, when it was 12.3%. A lot of the decrease is coming from people finding full-time work -- and thus earning more money.
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- Since 1975, COLA increases have been issued in all but three years — 2009, 2010 and 2015. In that period, the increase dropped 22 times from the previous year, but on average, the COLA has increased 3.88 percent since 1975, and 2.27 percent since 2000.
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United Nations Millennium Development Goals 1 In 1990, nearly half of the population in the developing regions lived on less than $1.25 a day. This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015. 2  At the global level more than 800 million people are still living in extreme poverty.  Globally, 300 million workers lived below the $1.25 a day poverty line in 2015.
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NewsroomArchive The nation's official poverty rate in 2010 was 15.1 percent, up from 14.3 percent in 2009 ─ the third consecutive annual increase in the poverty rate. There were 46.2 million people in poverty in 2010, up from 43.6 million in 2009 ─ the fourth consecutive annual increase and the largest number in the 52 years for which poverty estimates have been published.
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- 1 More than 1 billion people have been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1990.  In 1990, nearly half of the population in the developing regions lived on less than $1.25 a day. This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015.
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- Federal Poverty Level Chart. For 2017, the Federal poverty guideline is an annual income of $24,600 for a family of four. That guideline is the most commonly used statistic. Add $4,180 for each additional person to compute the Federal poverty level for larger families. Subtract $4,180 per person to calculate it for smaller families.
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World Bank: 'extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time World Bank: 'extreme poverty' to fall below 10% of world population for first time. It projects 702 million people or 9.6% of the world’s population will be living in extreme poverty in 2015, down from 902 million people or 12.8% in 2012.
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Soaring Poverty Casts Spotlight on âLost Decadeâ Last year more Americans fell into deep poverty, defined as less than half the official poverty line, or about $11,000, with the ranks of that group increasing to 20.5 million, or about 6.7 percent of the population.
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- The increase in poverty was concentrated among children. The poverty rate among children under 18 jumped from 16.7 percent to 17.6 percent between 2002 and 2003, and the number of poor children rose by 733,000, to 12.9 million.
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Living below poverty in Pennsylvania: Not what you think Welfare (TANF) payments have been the same amount for the past 20 years. But employment alone won’t solve the problem. Even with Pennsylvania’s minimum-wage increase in 2007, a full-time, full-year minimum wage worker earns $15,080 annually, an amount still below the poverty line for a family of four.
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- The average increase in medical aid premiums for 2015 is 7.8% which is also in excess of inflation (3.4% in excess of current inflation for 2015). The lowest premium increase is 6.6% and the highest increase is 9%.
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5 Cities Where Poverty Is Soaring According to the latest data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty rate in more than 20 cities with populations of 25,000 or more increased by at least 10 percentage points between those two three-year periods. 24/7 Wall St. examined the 10 cities with the biggest increases in poverty rates.
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Poverty Rate Rises to 15.1 Percent: What Does It Mean to Be Below the Poverty Line? This is the largest number of people living below the poverty line since the Census Bureau began counting in 1958, but as a percentage of the national population -- which has increased substantially since the 1950s -- it is not a record. It is, however, the most in more than 20 years, according to Forbes.The poverty rate -- 15.1 percent, up from 14.3 percent in 2009 -- is not as dire as it was during the Great Depression, when a third of the population was below the poverty line.Still, it underscores just how bad the economy remains.he poverty rate -- 15.1 percent, up from 14.3 percent in 2009 -- is not as dire as it was during the Great Depression, when a third of the population was below the poverty line. Still, it underscores just how bad the economy remains.
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Poverty in the United Kingdom The Population of Poverty USA. In 2014, 47 million people lived in Poverty USA. That means the poverty rate for 2014 was 15%. The 2014 poverty rate was 2.3 percentage points higher than in 2007, the year before the 2008 recession.
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- In 2000, the poverty rate for individuals was 12.2 percent and for families was 9.3 percent. In 2010, the poverty threshold, or poverty line, was $22,314 for a family of four. Over 15 percent of the population fell below this threshold in 2010.
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- Economic growth in El Salvador increased by 2.5 percent in 2015. While this figure is higher than that of previous years, it is just above the forecast for the next few years. Major social protection investments have helped reduce poverty rates in recent years, which fell from 38.8 percent in 2000 to 31.8 percent in 2014, according to official data.
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- Poverty has been increasing in rural areas where 85% of the population lives, compared to urban areas where it fell significantly from 25 to 17%. A key obstacle to reducing poverty is low agricultural productivity. The majority of the poor remain locked in low productivity subsistence farming.
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5 Cities Where Poverty Is Soaring An average of 15.7% of the U.S. population lived below the poverty line during the three-year period of 2010-2012, a considerable increase from an average of 13.6% during the previous three-year period of 2007-2009. In some of the nation’s smaller cities, poverty is an even more severe problem. In Eastpointe, Michigan, the poverty rate rose from 12.2% during 2007-2009, slightly below the U.S. average rate, to a 27.1% average rate during 2010-2012.
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Proof That Raising The Minimum Wage Will Increase Unemployment A reduction in wage costs of some few thousand dollars increases employment. Obviously therefore a rise in wage costs of four or five times that is going to have significant unemployment effects. QED: A $15 minimum wage is going to destroy many jobs. Yes, I am aware of all the other arguments that people are proffering.
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