Millions of Americans are extremely impoverished, with Washington D.C. seeing 10.3% of its population earning $8,160 or less in 2024, the highest rate in the country. Louisiana (9%), Mississippi (8.5%), and New Mexico (8.2%) fall next in line, compounded by low wages and comparatively limited economic opportunity compared to other states.
In 2024, 6% of the U.S. population lived in extreme poverty, equal to 20.4 million people.
Going further, economic hardship disproportionately impacts people of color in Washington D.C., with one in three black children living in poverty between 2019 and 2023, on average.
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Ragweed and other pollens making your cazy? Change your filters...
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Ignore the elephant in the room. Again. Common denominator being Africans.
ReplyDelete6 states show up on the top 10 in extreme poverty, single women households and Households on Welfare. I ignore P. Rico as they were only on the Welfare and not the others. All the charts are from Visual Capitalist.
ReplyDeleteThey are not counting transfer payments and provided services. Add in income assistance and the value of their healthcare, etc. they receive and you get a MUCH different conclusion. Given how generous most state and cities are, you can live as a welfare queen
ReplyDeleteUS "poor" vs the rest of the world.. (FWIW $3 a day is $1095)
ReplyDelete**The global figure for "poor" varies depending on the poverty line used, but the latest World Bank International Poverty Line (IPL) defines extreme poverty at $3.00 per day. According to this threshold, approximately 808 million people, or about 9.9% of the world's population, were living in extreme poverty in 2025.**