– More Than 1 In 9 Americans Live In Poverty:
In 2022, the U.S. official poverty rate was 11.5% with a total of 37.9 million people in poverty.
This map, via Visual Capitalist’s Kayla Zhu, visualizes the three-year average of poverty rates by U.S. state from 2020 to 2022.
The poverty rates are calculated using the official poverty measure, which defines poverty by comparing the pre-tax annual income to a specific national threshold adjusted for family size.
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