SOC 0007 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Adequate Seven, Tax Expenditure, Infant Mortality

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Poverty: standard of living below the minimum needed for the maintenance of an adequate diet, health, and shelter. Official poverty line, or poverty threshold: arbitrary line computed by multiplying the cost of basic nutritionally adequate diet by three. Developed by the social security administration in the 1960s. Americans spend 1/3 of their income on food. The number is underestimated because the government doesn"t keep up with inflation and how housing costs now take up more of a person"s income now and ignores medical and healthcare costs. The supplemental poverty measure accounts for food, clothing, shelter and utilities. In 2010, this would increase the number of people in poverty from 15. 1% (46. 2 million) to 16% (49. 1 million) People in poverty are often missed in the census because more than one family may live under the same roof, illegal immigrants are missed and the homeless. 27. 4% of blak americans are in poverty, 26. 6% of hispanics vs. 9. 9% of white americans.

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