Deb Simon for Congress
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Our Sputtering Economy by the Numbers: Poverty Edition
By Braden Goyette
September 20, 2011 "
ProPublica
" --
Last month,
we detailed the dismal state of the nation's economy
. Now that the Census Bureau has released
new poverty figures
, we wanted to give you another snapshot of how Americans are faring more than two years after the recession.
Americans below the poverty line in 2010
: 46.2 million
Official U.S. poverty rate in 2007
, before the recession: 12.5 percent
Poverty rate in 2009
: 14.3 percent
Poverty rate in 2010
: 15.1 percent
Last time the poverty level was this high
: 1993
Poverty line in 2010
: $22,314 for a family of four, or $11,139 for an individual
Rough amount the poor are
living on per week
: $200 or less
Poverty rate in American suburbs:
11.8 percent
,
the highest since 1967
Percentage of the population making
less than half the poverty line
in 2010: 6.7 percent
Percentage of the population making less than half the poverty line
in 2007, before the recession
: 5.2 percent
Poverty rate for
white Americans in 2010
: 13 percent
Poverty rate for
African-Americans in 2010
: 27.4 percent
Real median household income
in 2010: $49,445
Decline in median household income
since 2009: 2.3 percent
Decline in median household income
since before the recession
: 6.4 percent
The last time
median household incomes have been this low
: 1996
Real median household income in 1999
, in 2010 dollars: $53,252
Median
income for full-time male workers in 2010
: $47,715
Median
income for full-time male workers in 1973
, in 2010 dollars: $49,065
Official unemployment rate in August 2011
: 9.1 percent
Total unemployed people
in August: 14 million
People who were
employed part time for economic reasons in August 2011
: 8.8 million
People
not counted in the labor force who wanted work
: 2.6 million
Net jobs created in August 2011
: 0
Long-term unemployed people
as of August 2011: 6 million
Unemployed workers per job opening as of July 2011: 4.34 (
3.2 million openings
and
13.9 million unemployed people
)
Uninsured Americans
in 2010: 49.9 million
Percentage of Americans
without health insurance in 2010
: 16.3 percent
Percentage of Americans
without health insurance in 2007
, before the recession: 15.3 percent
Percentage of
children who were uninsured in 2010
: 9.8 percent
Percentage of
children in poverty who were uninsured in 2010
: 15.4 percent
Percentage of American households
that had enough to eat throughout the year in 2007
: 88.9 percent
Percentage of American households
that had enough to eat throughout the year in 2010
: 85.5 percent
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