claim: "there are more poor people today as a percentage of our population than the 1970s."
author: jeb bush
evidence_1: in 1991, there were nine countries with more than half of the population  undernourished. today, the majority of countries have prevalence levels below  35 percent, with the ... as a result, wasting is often compounded by conditions of  poor nutrition, .... data for 1970 and 1980 has been sourced from two fao state  of food ...
evidence_2: and thus it's news that more than 40 percent of african americans now ... almost  a third of the black population lives in suburbia. ... and by 1970 they were earning  (on average) roughly 60 percent of what white men took in. ... and with almost 30  percent of black families still living in poverty, what is their trickle-down effect?
evidence_3: mar 27, 2017 ... poverty is a concept intrinsically linked to welfare – and there are many ways in ...  but enjoy their lives just as much—or even more—than people with much ...  today, only the very poorest people in the world would die in the way ..... low and  middle income countries, and 82.1 percent of the child population.
evidence_4: dec 11, 2018 ... beginning in the 1970s, economic growth slowed and the income gap widened.  ... hence they do not show up in the population of tax filers, and their income does  not .... as the chart illustrates, wealth is much more concentrated than income. ...  the poverty rate is the percentage of people living in poverty.
evidence_5: jun 27, 2016 ... and in terms of their median net worth, white households are about 13 times as ...  while blacks are more than twice as likely as whites to be living in poverty, this  actually ... today, two-thirds of hispanics have a high school diploma, ... in 1970,  hispanic household income was about 20% higher than that of ...