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
1 15.5 million (21.1 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty. 2  4.6 million (10 percent) seniors 65 and older were in poverty. 3  The overall poverty rate according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure is 15.3 percent, as compared with the official poverty rate of 14.8 percent.[ii].