Posted on September 16, 2011 |
NWLC has been crunching numbers all week long on the newly released poverty data for 2010. Our full report on the numbers was released today. The poverty data provides us with a sobering reminder of the real economic hardship felt by families throughout the country and the urgent need for action to create jobs now.
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What is the poverty level amount?
I don't know what constitutes the level of poverty (is it the amount earned? Or are other factors part of the whole picture? Thanks.
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These graphs are not rates. They are percentages. Are they percentages of these demographics living in poverty? Are they they graphing the average percentage of poverty that these households are living in? Rates are typically shown as a proportion -- for example, 5 per 1,000, where 5 people out of every 1,000 people exhibit whatever characteristic under study. I have no idea what these graphs mean (and I am an epidemiologist).
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