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 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.