the poverty rate in the usa is 29 %.
the poverty rate in the usa is 29 %.
what is the poverty rate in the usa?
29 %
according to research by the center for rural pennsylvania, which is a legislative agency of the pennsylvania general assembly, the poverty rate for schuylkill county was 13.5% in 2014. the statewide poverty rate was 13.6% in 2014. the 2012 childhood poverty rate by school district was: blue mountain school district - 24.1% living at 185% or below than the federal poverty level; mahanoy area school district - 64.6%; minersville area school district - 47.1%; north schuylkill school district - 44.3%; pine grove area school district - 38%; pottsville area school district - 53.5%; saint clair area school district - 53.4%; schuylkill haven area school district - 37.7%; shenandoah valley school district - 75.5%; tamaqua area school district - 40.9%; tri-valley school district - 36.8% and williams valley school district - 43.4%. the child poverty rate is collected by the school districts as part of the federal free school lunch program.
schuylkill county, pennsylvania
poverty in the bellevue neighborhood worsened from 1980 to 2000. the bellevue/congress heights/washington highlands neighborhood cluster had a poverty rate of 26.1 percent in 1980. while the rate remained steady until 1990 (27.2 percent), it rose significantly to 34.0 by 2000. more than 46 percent of all children in the cluster were living in poverty. only the navy yard neighborhood (poverty rate of 50.3 percent in 2000), the buena vista/knox hill/garfield heights/woodland cluster (poverty rate of 47.3 percent in 2000), barry farm (poverty rate of 47.3 percent in 2000), and then douglass/shipley terrace/skyland cluster (poverty rate of 46.2 percent in 2000) had higher poverty rates in the city. in comparison, the poverty rate for all of ward 8 was 38 percent, while the childhood poverty rate for the ward was greater than 50 percent. numerically, the bellevue/congress heights/washington highlands cluster had the second-most number of people living in poverty (10,270) of any area in the city. (the columbia heights/mt. pleasant cluster had the most residents in poverty [11,328], while the third-largest concentration was in the crestwood/petworth cluster [5,769].) the bellevue/congress heights/washington highlands cluster also had the highest numerical concentration of african americans in poverty (9,997).
bellevue (washington, d.c.)