Bread for the World Institute

The 2010 Hunger Report

A Just and Sustainable Recovery

Income Security


Poverty

 

Interactive Data: Below the Poverty Line

These charts represent the percentage of people in poverty during the past 12 months, from 1999 to 2008.

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Unemployment

 

Interactive Data: Unemployment

This map tracks annual average unemployment rates nationally and for individual states.

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Median Income

 

Median Income

The median divides the income distribution into two equal parts: one-half falling below the median and one-half rising above the median.

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Children and Poverty

 

Interactive Data: Children in Poverty

Three maps representing the share of children in poverty, extreme poverty (50 percent or less of poverty), and low income (less than 200 percent of poverty).

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TANF Recipients

 

Interactive Data: TANF

This map presents total number of TANF recipients (adults and children) and percentage of state population.

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Women's Earnings

 

This chart illustrates what women earn as a percentage of what men earn.

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Asset Poverty

 

Asset Poverty

A household is asset poor if it has insufficient savings to get by at the federal poverty line for three months in the absence of income.

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