Poverty Rate In Wake County

Poverty is everywhere in America, and there will always be poverty. Nobody has found a solution to it. If you live in a city you will probably see it every day. A lot of times people do not have a

The current poverty rate in America is 13.5 percent (US Census Bureau). That measures out to roughly 43.1 million Americans. What exactly is poverty? Poverty means not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is so much more than just not having enough money. Poverty is not having access to a doctor or medications you may need, poverty is not having access to a good education. Poverty can be the people who are barely able to pay for food and shelter and simply can’t afford other expenses such as car repairs, field trips with their children and any other extracurricular activity.

Nebraska was one of thirteen states in 1995 that had poverty rates below ten percent. The majority of the nation except Hawaii and Idaho, had falling poverty rates. The United States as a whole had a poverty rate of about 13.8 percent in 1995.(Poverty Rates 8). There are four types of poverty.

"Recent statistics from the United States Census Bureau (2012) indicate that 12.9 percent of the population are foreign born, and 33.1

Poverty plagues the entire nation. People assume that the worst of poverty is in the midst of heavily populated areas such as New York or California. What they don’t realize is that poverty rates in Grand Forks are worse than the average poverty rates in the entire nation. And it isn’t just a slight increase, poverty rates in Grand Forks County are 150% worse than the national average. The poverty rates are ridiculous, yet there are only a few articles in the Grand Forks Herald that actually focus on poverty. I researched through the Grand Forks Herald database and came up with less than ten articles in the past 5 years that focused on poverty in the area. That’s a maximum of ten articles in 1,825 days. This report focuses on the effects that

A recent study conducted by Messias, McEwen, and Clark (2015)29 stated that the United States has more foreign-born residents than any other nation.

Many people in this region face poverty every day and with the prospects grim, poverty is an ongoing issue. According to Merriam-Webster, poverty is defined as “the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.” If you drive through many of the towns that dot the Appalachians, you will see abandoned buildings, dilapidated homes with trash littering the front yard all just commonplace in this area. Poverty is evident wherever you turn in these communities. Clay County is just one struggling area of the Appalachians. Here the median income is $22,296, barely above the poverty line. 12.7 % of Clay County’s residents are unemployed, all scary statistics; since this is coal country (Lowrey, Annie).Without coal bringing in jobs like it used to, other counties in Eastern Kentucky have similar statistics that show a

Upon arriving to the Poverty simulation, I did not know what to expect. After being able to interact with my peers to understand what it was like to be living in poverty, I got a better understand of what it entails. I quickly wanted to know what the rate of poverty was in Greensboro alone. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, they estimated 268,232 people whose status is poverty in 2013. 29% of that estimate are subjects who are under 18 years old. Out of 268,323, females are about 141,000 of it. The top two races that tend to hold a poverty status are Caucasian and African Americans. The problem at hand is that this status is nationwide.

The nation began regulating and controlling immigrants in 1875. Beginning in 1970’s the percent of people living in the U.S. that were foreign born began to rise. Passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1965 was a turning point. In 1980, 6.2 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born and by 2010 that number (para. 2).

The U.S. today has more immigrants than any other nation. The nation’s foreign-born population is projected to reach 78 million by 2060, making up 18.8% of the total U.S. population, according to new Census Bureau population projections. Yet while Asian and Hispanic immigrants are projected to continue to be the main sources of U.S. immigrant population growth, the new projections show that the share of the foreign born is expected to fall among these two groups. Today, 66.0% of U.S. Asians are immigrants, but that share is predicted to fall to 55.4% by 2060. And while about a third of U.S. Hispanics (34.9%) are now foreign-born, the Census Bureau projects that this share too will fall, to 27.4% in 2060.

Labor force well, and distribute labor roughly even” (Carliner). Overall he gives examples as how immigrants join the labor force in America and how they have a diversity in jobs that they take. This is something that I find that greatly benefits the U.S. economy in a positive way, since there are often jobs which others are unwilling to do, which means that immigrants filling the positions only adds labor to the system rather than stealing as some say. Mitra Toossi explains this even further by stating in her article Labor force Projections to 2018: Older Workers Staying More Active that, “The labor force participation rate of Hispanics and Asians has been increasing steadily in the past several decades. Compared with other groups, Hispanic and Asian men have very strong attachments to the labor market” (Toossi, 39). This asserts that immigrants are one of the increasing factors in the labor market, ad follows with the empirical evidence provided by Mitra Toossi, which suggests the conclusion that this is one of the growing sources of labor available to the U.S. Thus making it one that is valuable since it is in high demand as well, one could argue that the labor force is comprised of mainly hard working American labor, but within the same article as immigration rates increase and so do fertility among U.S. immigrants, we see that Americans have a smaller rate of increase in the labor force than that of

According to ACS, 2016 1 year estimates, 9.4% of the population in the county is living below poverty line, which is lower than the

Poverty; “A condition where people’s basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter are not being met” (Business Dictionary). In order to defeat poverty, we need different tactics to identify the families, assess the situation and its urgency, and slowly tackle the economic situation one step at a time. We will need a lot of partners, a lot of cooperation, and a lot of ideas in making it all possible. So let us start our journey to fixing the problem in Atlantic County.

Research from the Wharton School of Business, Pennsylvania, shows that the foreign-born population has grown rapidly in recent decades, rising from less than 5 percent of the U.S. population in 1970 to 13 percent in 2013. Although immigrants comprise a larger share of population today since World War II, the foreign born share is roughly the same as in 19th century and early 20th century, where 15 percent of U.S residents were immigrants. The evidence increasingly suggests that when supply of labor is boosted by immigration, investments by firms increase to offset any reduction in capital per worker,

45 million of all Americans live below the poverty line. Poverty is the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support. A poverty line is a minimum income level used as an official standard, varying from state to state, for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty. Poverty exists worldwide, but is more popular in certain areas. In America we see poverty widely spread, but one very popular close to home example would be the poverty that lies within Appalachia. Appalachia is a large mountain region within the United States extending through “all of West Virginia and parts of 12 other states: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.” (Wonderopolis 1). Poverty is a big issue within all these states and many more thought the United States. Poverty levels can also affect the economy of these various states. With poverty also comes many aspects like welfare, the War on Poverty, economical impacts, BROC, etc. It is definitely something considered a worldwide problem existing for many years and unfortunately many years to come. Poverty is seen throughout our nation and more importantly all around our community, but is there a way to help reduce poverty levels, boost the economy, and help others?