Poverty In The U.S
by Fernanda Sanmiguel
1. Housing space
1.1. 49% live in single-family house
1.2. 41% live in apartments
1.3. 10% live in mobile homes
1.4. 71% U.S house holds have two or more rooms per tenant
1.5. Crowding is rare; 2.4% of all households are crowded, 5.6% of poor household are crowded
1.6. Average poor American have more square footage then the average person living in London, Paris, Vienna and Munich
1.7. Poor Americans have 3 times more living space then the middle-income in Mexico and Turkey
2. Housing quality
2.1. only 2.3% have 'severe physical problems'
3. Nutrition and poor children
3.1. Children in families with incomes below the poverty level actually consume more meat than children with higher income
4. What is poverty?
4.1. For most American, inability to provide for the family, homeless
4.2. If this was true, 37 million classified as being ' in poverty' there would be characterized as poor.
5. Facts about a person defined as poor in the U.S
5.1. 43% own their own home
5.2. 80% have air condition
5.3. 6% are overcrowded
5.4. Average poor living in the U.S have more living space then individuals living in London and Paris
5.5. Three-quarters own a car, 31% own two or more cars
5.6. 97% have a color tv
5.7. 78% have a vcr or dvd
5.8. 89% own microwaves, ovens
6. Poverty and obesity
6.1. Poor adult men are slightly less likely to be overweight
6.1.1. Poor adult women are more likely to be overweight