Poverty USA

Here is a link to Poverty USA, a website created by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development to help raise the awareness of poverty here in the United States.

Here are some interesting facts that you may not know about poverty in the U.S.:

• There are 37 million people living below the poverty line in the United States
• A single parent of two young children working full-time in a minimum wage job for a year would make $10,712 before taxes—a wage $4,865 below the poverty threshold set by the federal government.
• The poverty rate for America's elderly population - those people over 65 - stands at 10.1 percent, or one out of every ten seniors, while the child poverty rate is 17.6 percent, or one out of every six children in America.