{"id":5452,"date":"2015-07-28T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T19:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:14:16","slug":"poverty-line-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/07\/28\/poverty-line-common\/","title":{"rendered":"3 in 5 Americans Have Earned Poverty-Level Incomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5453\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/07\/live-below-the-line-infographic.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5453\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/07\/live-below-the-line-infographic-1024x711.jpg\" alt=\"The Live Below the Line campaign helped people in many countries express solidarity with fellow citizens working to make ends meet.\" width=\"600\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/07\/live-below-the-line-infographic-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/07\/live-below-the-line-infographic-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/07\/live-below-the-line-infographic.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5453\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Live Below the Line campaign helped people in many countries express solidarity with fellow citizens working to make ends meet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For those of us fueling ourselves with the late-night pizza and discount wine that a graduate stipend affords us, the idea of spending at least a year or two on poverty-level incomes may not feel shocking. It may, however, be more common than we once thought.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0133513\">new study<\/a> by sociologists <a href=\"https:\/\/devsoc.cals.cornell.edu\/people\/thomas-hirschl\">Thomas Hirschl<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/brownschool.wustl.edu\/Faculty\/FullTime\/Pages\/MarkRank.aspx\">Mark Rank<\/a> finds that nearly 60% of Americans will spend at least one year living off of poverty-level incomes. These rates are heavily concentrated among those under the age of 30, with 42% of those young adults experiencing at least one year of poverty (20<sup>th<\/sup> percentile of income), and 23% experiencing extreme poverty (10<sup>th<\/sup> percentile of income). And for those without savings or parental help to fall back on, these low incomes can lead to homelessness and long-term financial struggle. According to their findings, 12% of Americans spend nearly a decade or more in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a great deal of fluidity in the income distribution,\u201d Hirschl told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/business-economics\/three-in-five-americans-have-experienced-poverty-level-incomes\"><em>Pacific Standard Magazine<\/em>.<\/a> \u201cEconomic insecurity&#8212;this is not a small effect. We have a tough road ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of us fueling ourselves with the late-night pizza and discount wine that a graduate stipend affords us, the idea of spending at least a year or two on poverty-level incomes may not feel shocking. It may, however, be more common than we once thought. A new study by sociologists Thomas Hirschl and Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2025,"featured_media":5453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[38138,131,39110,119,38137],"class_list":["post-5452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inequality","tag-economic-insecurity","tag-economy","tag-inequality","tag-poverty","tag-poverty-line"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/07\/live-below-the-line-infographic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5454,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/5454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}