More Than 1 In 9 Americans Live In Poverty In 2022, the U.S. official poverty rate was 11.5% with a total of 37.9 million people in poverty. This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, visualizes the three-year average of poverty rates by U.S. state from 2020 to 2022. The poverty rates are calculated using the official poverty measure, which defines poverty by comparing the pre-tax annual income to a specific national threshold adjusted for family size. The figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau and are updated as of September 2023. Southern U.S. Generally More Poor U.S. poverty rates were relatively higher in the South.… — Continue at ZeroHedge News : Read More
