Federal Statistics on Poverty

 

Percentage of children living in poverty (1980-1998)

 

Percentage of families living below poverty level

 

Percentage of people in U.S. living in poverty

 

Median incomes (1997)

 

Poverty rates among adults

 

Poverty rates in U. S. (1998)

 

Hunger statistics U.S.

 

Median incomes by groups (1980-1997)

 

Poverty thresholds (1990-1999)

 

Median incomes according to educational attainment and gender (1997)

 

Poverty rates among the working poor, by racial group and gender (1998)

 

Works Cited

 

All the above government statistics accessed through Lexis-Nexis <http://web.lexis-  nexis.com/universe> 10 Feb 2001.