Defining and Decreasing Poverty Within the U.S.

How the United States defines poverty is outdated and just hurts how poor families and governments can help them. Due to the overall success rate and average income of Americans for the entire world, there is only a small fraction (defined as basic requirement) defined as living in absolute poverty . As mentioned in the class, "Most poor people have cars, houses, consumer goods." Charts showing ownership of specific goods show that 73.4% of the poor have cars, 91.3% People have a type of phone and even show 79.7% People have air conditioning.

Yesterday, the US Census Bureau announced the US poverty data of 2013, but this is varied. The poverty level in the US is declining, but it is not enough. In fact, these changes are so small that they are not statistically significant for most groups. The positive change in these two numbers was due to children and Hispanics, and their poverty rate and the total number of poor people declined. However, it is true that household income has not changed since the level of poverty has not returned to the group of economic recession, wages continue to decline.

Today, poverty is a major problem in the United States. Economic, political, social and cultural factors can lead to poverty. The US Census Bureau defines poverty as "an economic situation insufficient to meet the basic needs of housing, clothing, food, medical care, etc." Poverty is usually divided into two parts: absolute poverty and relative poverty. Absolute poverty or extreme poverty is a situation in which individuals can not afford to pay for basic necessities necessary for survival. Second, relative poverty suggests that people may be able to access the basic needs, but they are unable to maintain what they consider as normal living conditions . Relative poverty is usually focused on comparing income with other aspects of social income. The most common poverty measure in the United States is the poverty standard set by the US government.

Poverty is the lack of funds to meet the basic basic needs socially acceptable and the daily needs of people. The U.S. government sets the limits of poverty and defines poverty as youth, but mainstream society is often considered to be fundamental because of the lack of necessary goods and services. Official youth poverty standards are incorporated into the inflation index and consumer price index. In 2012, the US government revealed that 58.5% of American teenagers are getting into a treasure trove of poverty and teenagers aged 12 to 25 are adversely affected. Compared with the suburbs, the poverty rate in urban areas and rural areas remains high. UNICEF's poverty report in 2013 marks the United States as one of the countries with the highest poverty rates of children and young people. Americans are ranked second and over 16% of the population is young (Wenk, & Hardesty, March 1, 2003)