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A Snapshot of Current Poverty. Data on poverty in the United States is collected annually by the Current Population Survey. In 2003, 12.8 percent of all nonelderly individuals lived below the poverty line, while 17.6 percent of children lived in families with incomes below the poverty line.
This course investigates poverty in America in historical and contemporary perspective. We will explore four central aspects of poverty: low-wage work and joblessness, housing and neighborhoods, crime and punishment, and survival and protest. Along the way, we will examine the cause and consequences of poverty; study the lived experience
behavioural factors (i.e., choices) are the primary cause of poverty and that with the right policies and incentives as well as the expectation of personal responsibility, behaviours can change.
Poverty: Facts, Causes and Consequences. In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children lived in poverty and 15.1 percent of all persons were poor. Government spending on anti-poverty programs includes $30 b. on TANF, $51 b. on the EITC, and $50 b. on Food Stamps.
Concentrated poverty—poor people living in very poor places—presents some of the deepest economic and social challenges facing America today. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005
The official poverty measure, however, remains the best source of historical perspective on the changing population and profile of low-income individuals and families in the United States.
Reviewing recent research on poverty in the United States, we derive a conceptual framework with three main characteristics. First, poverty is multidimensional, compounding material hardship with human frailty, generational trauma, family and neighborhood violence, and broken institutions.
