Few videos on poverty in rural, suburban and urban USA

Last updated on 22nd Nov. 2015

1) USA rural poverty (Kentucky, USA), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3tgL5alIv8, 8 min. 38 secs, published on Oct. 18th 2014, by PBS Newshour

2) USA suburban poverty (in Long Island, around 65 miles east of New York City), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjsrdcbbPBU, 9 min. 43 secs, published on Jan. 11th 2014, by PBS Newshour

3) USA urban (city) poverty & drugs & violence (Chicago), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dklNDwmWsk, 23 min. 07 secs, Dec. 12th 2013

4) Finally here is a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops video on USA poverty giving some analysis of expenses that families living at poverty levels in USA face, making it challenging to make ends meet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3iRRsoqoMI, around 4 mins, published Nov. 10th 2015.
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Update: From Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014, U.S. Census Bureau, issued (dated) September 2015, https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p60-252.pdf (this seems to be the main source of data for the 4th video above (U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops video)):

From Page 12:
*) In 2014, the official poverty rate was 14.8 percent. There were 46.7 million people in poverty.
*) The poverty rate in 2014 for children under age 18 was 21.1 percent. The poverty rate for people aged 18 to 64 was 13.5 percent, while the rate for people aged 65 and older was 10.0 percent.

Ravi: So one out of around seven Americans live in poverty (100/14.8 = 6.76). And one out of around five American children below the age of 18 live in poverty (100/21.1 = 4.74).

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