Naona unaanza maigizo sasa 44 m how will be?
Ni vigumu kuamini kuwa nchi tajiri kama Marekani inaweza kuwa na masikini milioni 44. Lakini huo ndio ukweli.
Nadhani amepata namba hiyo katika data kama hizi:
According to the 2014 census, 14.5% of Americans, or over 45 million people, live in poverty, up from 11.3% in 2000; a rate not seen since the early '90s.
Chanzo #1.
45 Million Americans Live in Poverty, but You Wouldn’t Know It From Watching 2016 Coverage
Chanzo kingine cha mwaka 2009 kinachoonyesha kulikuwa na walalahoi milioni 39.8 Marekani:
2009, 13.2% (39.8 million) Americans lived in poverty.
Chanzo #2.
Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The official poverty measure is published by the United States Census Bureau and shows that:
Chanzo cha 2014 kinaonyesha tena walalahoi milioni 46.7:
In 2014, there were 46.7 million people in poverty.
This is up from 37.3 million in 2007.
Chanzo hichi pia kinaonyesha walalahoi wengi ni Wamarekani Weusi:
The 2014 poverty rate for Blacks was 26.2 percent, for Hispanics 23.6 percent, for Asians 12 percent and for non-Hispanic whites 10.1 percent.
The poverty rate for children under 18 was 21.1 percent in 2014 and the number of children in poverty was 15.5 million.
19.9 million Americans live in extreme poverty. This means their family’s cash income is less than half of the poverty line, or about $10,000 a year for a family of four. They represented 6.6 percent of all people and 44.6 percent of those in poverty.
Chanzo #3
Hunger in America: 2016 United States Hunger and Poverty Facts - World Hunger
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