claim: the poverty rate for families in which a husband and a wife work is 5 percent, but in families headed by one person … "it's 30 percent today."
author: rick santorum
evidence_1: sep 20, 2017 ... today roughly 30 percent of blacks are poor. however, two-parent black families  are rarely poor. only 8 percent of black married-couple families live in poverty.  among black families in which both the husband and wife work full time, the  poverty rate is under 5 percent. poverty in black families headed by ...
evidence_2: sixty-six percent of households in 2012 were family households, down from 81  percent in 1970. • between 1970 and 2012, the share of households that were  married couples with children under. 18 halved from 40 percent to 20 percent. •  the proportion of one-person households increased by 10 percentage points ...
evidence_3: one had poverty rates greater than 30 percent. 3. page 10. o families with  related children had poverty rates ranging from 6.6 percent among married  couples to 43.1 percent for those headed ... and percentage of poor people in  ohio are lower than the 1,846,000 and 16.4 percent seen in 2010-2011, but  remain above the ...
evidence_4: in developing countries, divorce is not as common, but desertion, death, and  imprisonment produce single-parent families, primarily headed by women ( kinnear 1999). rates vary country to country from a low of less than 5 percent in  kuwait to a high of over 40 percent in botswana and barbados. in countries such  as ghana ...
evidence_5: aug 30, 2005 ... but when using family budget measures, which embody the higher cost of living  in cities, one finds that 42% of families living in cities and 30% of families residing  in ... poverty thresholds are absolute income levels used to measure the number  and percentage of those who are the most impoverished and ...