More than 46 million Americans live in Poverty USA.
Americans families were having a difficult time making ends meet before the recession. With continuing unemployment and increasing costs of living, more and more families have to choose between necessities like health care, child care, and even food. Poverty is a state of privation, or a lack of the usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. In November 2012 the U.S Census Bureau said more than 16% of the population lived in poverty, including almost 20% of American children, up from 14.3% (approximately 43.6 million) in 2009 and to its highest level since 1993. In 2008, 13.2% (39.8 million) Americans lived in poverty.
There were about 643,000 sheltered homeless people nationwide in January 2009. Almost two-thirds stayed in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program and the other third were living on the street, in an abandoned building, or another place not meant for human habitation.Most Americans (58.5%) will spend at least one year below the poverty line at some point between ages 25 and 75.
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