Reply #52: seniors are not disproportionately poor [View All]

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unless you have another source than the US census that says so, it is quite the other way around

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/cpstables/032010/pov/new02_000.htm


percent of poverty * all *** under *** 18 to ** 65+ ** 75+
level income ***** people ** age 18 *** 64

below 50% ********** 5% ***** 8.7% ***** 3.8% * 1.8% * 2.2%
below 100% ********* 12.5% ** 20.1% *** 10% *** 5.4% * 6.2%
below 150% ********* 21.1% ** 31.3% *** 17.4 ** 13.0% * 15.1%
below 200% ********* 30% **** 41.7% *** 25.2% * 24.3% * 28.4%


Only at 200% of poverty does the percent of elderly rise above the percent of non-elderly. At lower incomes, of less than 150% of the poverty line, the percent of elderly at that income is less than the percent of non-elderly.

Instead, it is children under age 18 who are dispropotionately poor.