Many adverbs end in â-lyâ. If you are not sure of the part of speech a word would be, and it ends with â-lyâ, it is probably an adverb. Examples include: 1  Financially. 2  Willfully. 3  Abruptly. 4  Endlessly. 5  Firmly. 6  Delightfully.
How Many Americans Live In Poverty? : Planet Money Almost 50 million people in the U.S. are poor according to a new report. That's three million more than the traditional poverty measure suggests. Accessibility links
The True US Poverty Rate Is 4.5%, Not 14.5%. The official US poverty number is 14.5%. Thatâs the percentage of the population that are below the official poverty line. However, thatâs not actually as useful a number as many seem to think that it is. Thereâs a number of strangenesses about how that number is worked out and it might well be more accurate to say that the US poverty number is 4.5%.