{"id":39515,"date":"2011-09-15T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39515"},"modified":"2012-02-20T16:12:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:12:58","slug":"u-s-income-and-poverty-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/15\/u-s-income-and-poverty-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Income and Poverty in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2011\/09\/the-5-most-astounding-facts-from-the-census-poverty-report\/245023\/#.TnCabKoeqWs.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/em> posted several graphs from a recent Census Bureau report on income and poverty as of 2010. The racial differences in median household income are truly awful; half of African American families make less than $32,000 a year. Stop and just seriously think, for a second, about the dramatic difference in access to resources &#8212; decent housing, some savings for emergencies, retirement accounts, etc. &#8212; these numbers translate into:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/income.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39518\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/income-500x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/income-500x299.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/income.jpg 814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the percentage of Americans falling below the poverty line rose:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/poverty.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39517\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/poverty-500x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/poverty-500x254.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/09\/poverty.jpg 617w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/prod\/2011pubs\/p60-239.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full Census Bureau report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic posted several graphs from a recent Census Bureau report on income and poverty as of 2010. The racial differences in median household income are truly awful; half of African American families make less than $32,000 a year. Stop and just seriously think, for a second, about the dramatic difference in access to resources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36,12498,285,1759,1760,1754,1757],"class_list":["post-39515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-economics-great-recession","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45106,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39515\/revisions\/45106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}