Federalism and Poverty in the United States

Federalism and poverty in the United States Many Americans believe that the federal government is too big, regardless of the number and authority of institutions the Federal government directs. Some people also believe that the daily work of Capitol Hill will not affect their lives because they believe that politicians do not understand their problems. This recent dissatisfaction with Washington, DC led a discussion about the distribution of power between the federal, state and local governments again.

The population below the US federal poverty line has recently declined since the historic highest level after the Great Depression. In 2015, there is data for the past year, 43.1 million people (13.5% of the population) are poor people. Even after a sustained economic expansion over the years, this figure has increased by 5.8 million more than before the 2007 recession, an increase of 11.5 million more than in 2000. Poverty in the United States has long been related to the center and rural areas of large cities. It is always the most concentrated. Even if the number of poor people has increased since the 2000s, the number of poor people has been increasing in these areas. Between 2000 and 2015, the poverty rate in large cities and rural areas was about 20%. In the 2000s, it touched a vast community nationwide far beyond its long history.

The Southern Education Foundation defines extreme poverty as being less than half of the poverty level of the four-member family set by the federal government, less than half of $ 22,350, and in 2008, 5.7 million children in the United States live with extreme poverty doing. 42% of them live in the south. However, 9% of children in New York, Ohio, Arizona and Michigan are in extreme poverty, and over 8% of the children live in Missouri and Indiana. One in five people in the Bronx has a lower standard of living than the Federal poverty line.

In the past 40 years, the poverty rate of children in the United States was high. According to official poverty measures, about one-fifth of the children live in homes with revenues below the Federal poverty line (4 families in 2014 $ 4,834), 1 x 1 DeNavas-Walt, C Proctor, BD US Census Bureau, current population report. US income and poverty: 2013. US Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 2014: P60-249 Google Scholar See all references Since the late 1970's, children's poverty rate approached or exceeded 20% (16% to 23%) (Figure). Alternative anti-poverty measures with improvement measures show that more progress has been made by reducing children's poverty over the long term (Wimer et al., Current Academic Pediatrics 2 × 2 Wimer, C., Nam, JH, Waldfogel). , J. And Fox, L .; Children's poverty trends use improved poverty indicators Acad Pediatr. 2016; 3: S 60 - S 66