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
There were 46.7 million poor people in America in 2014, and one in three were children. Twenty-one. percent of children were poor in 2014, compared to 13.5 percent of people ages 18-64 and 10 percent of. people ages 65 and older. ï· There were 15,540,000 children living in poverty in 2014. ï· The percent of children living in poverty was 21.1 percent in 2014, a 1.9 percent decrease from 21.5. percent in 2013. ï· Poverty is defined as an annual income below $24,230 for an average family of four, meaning less. than $2,019 a month, $466 a week, or $66 a day.