The State of Poverty

The State of Poverty

• Number of children: 12.9 million
  ...four times the number of all the children in Illinois
  
• Number of seniors 65 and over: 3.6 million
  ...the same as the entire population of Oklahoma
  
• Number of women: 14.6 million
  ...the entire population of Wisconsin, Indiana, and Iowa combined
• Number reporting a disability: 8.0 million
  ...a population larger than the State of Massachusetts
• Number of homeless: 3.5 million
  ...twice the population of Nebraska

Stats from the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law