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What IS Poverty?

Updated: Apr 17, 2020



Poverty is defined as being below the poverty threshold for this year. As of 2019, the poverty threshold for a 4 person family (2 parents, 2 kids) was $25,926 per year. All of the thresholds by family size are listed in the following table:



The US poverty rate was 11.8%, as seen here:



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