claim: "one out of two americans … are living either in or near poverty. that means 150 million americans, half of us."
author: tavis smiley
evidence_1: where does this leave us with stein's claim that “one in two americans remain in or near poverty”? we found it to be untrue according to most conventional measures and definitions of near poverty. the official census bureau measure got us nowhere near 50 percent of the population when combined with any of the ...
evidence_2: dec 15, 2011 ... washington - squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of americans — nearly 1 in 2 — have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings ... about 97.3 million americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level, ...
evidence_3: nov 18, 2011 ... down but not quite out, these americans form a diverse group sometimes called “near poor” and sometimes simply overlooked — and a new count suggests they are far more numerous ... all told, that places 100 million people — one in three americans — either in poverty or in the fretful zone just above it.
evidence_4: tary personnel who live in a household with at least one other civilian adult, regardless of whether they live off post or on post. all other armed forces are excluded. for further documentation about the cps asec, see <www.census.gov/prod/techdoc/cps. /cpsmar13.pdf>. * u.s. island areas include american samoa, guam, ...
evidence_5: mar 11, 2016 ... some 33.1 million americans—two out of every three people in low-income families with children—are in low-income families headed by partnered .... been a much larger increase in poverty among cohabiting couples with children over the past 15 years than among either married or one-adult families with ...