[OC] Armut in den Vereinigten Staaten

As a long standing NJ/NY resident , I would say everyone I know is living either in poverty or on the cusp of poverty. Nobody can afford an incident with their bodies , their cars, or their homes. They are all living 1 incident away from being destitute. And it’s not like they aren’t making money. Their salaries are 80-100k+ typically. The “actual” cost of living is just so much higher now.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find that this data has the incorrect information regarding costs of living.

Interested in the differences between the official and the supplemental poverty measures. It’s about 2 percentage points but with some marked exceptions, most notably in the case of ‘Less than HS’. I wonder why that difference is so massive, with the SPM being more than 17 points higher than the official measure.

what jumps out to me here is the “worked full time” group – only 1.8% (official) vs 4.1% (supplemental). so basically, a full-time job almost guarantees you’re above the poverty line… unless you live in a high cost-of-living area, then the supplemental measure catches you

I have wanted to see this for so long.

Democrats have been complicit in the former measure which outright negates the effects of welfare.

There is one category I want to see, which isn’t there. Disabled Americans, including but not only, military veterans.