NATIVE AMERICAN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES     pt1      1600w

 What is the poorest community in the United States: Is it the community that is widely discussed in mainstream media and politics? Or is it the community that is rarely mentioned and is excluded from many statistics regarding labor and poverty? The popular trend among the United States reverts to the notion of highly populated urban areas as the places that contain that vast majority of poverty. In some cases, this is true. However, at the aggregate level, the true statistics may be surprising to some.

Part II. Definition of Poverty and Native American Statistics

What is poverty and how it is defined in the United States? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty line for a single person household is $12,140, with the income threshold increasing $4,320 per additional person/family member in the household. Looking in retrospect over the past 35 years, we can see significant differences by race and ethnicity in the risk of poverty. In figure 1 you can