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As you can see, the level changes with the number of household members. For a family of two, the poverty line is set at a household income of $15,730 per year. As of the last Census in 2010, 15.1% of the U.S. lives in poverty.
The nation's official poverty rate in 2010 was 15.1 percent, up from 14.3 percent in 2009 â the third consecutive annual increase in the poverty rate. There were 46.2 million people in poverty in 2010, up from 43.6 million in 2009 â the fourth consecutive annual increase and the largest number in the 52 years for which poverty estimates have been published.