US poverty mapped – interactive

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/sep/15/us-poverty-mapped

Record numbers of Americans are living in poverty - 46.2 million, according to the latest data from the US Census Bureau. How many people is that in each state? Where are the lowest incomes and the most people without health insurance? Click on a state to explore it - or click the dropdown menu to choose ways of seeing the data
• Datablog: explore the data behind this map
Mapped using Google Fusion tables

Map at the link --

[Skidmore]

1. Please explain your state's stats in this area, Governor Pinata.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Sobering. Check out Texas. And an immediate Unrec? How pathetic.

[cali]

3. great resource.

frightening.

[RKP5637]

4. K&R!!! n/t

[InkAddict]

5. Nowhere to run...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6JQ2Vzr0bQ&feature=related

Where are the jobs, Congress Critters?

[aikoaiko]

6. Plate tectonics have been at play with Michigan apparently.

:shrug:

[Lucinda]

7. Interesting info. Thank you.

It looks like the gap between male and female income (from about the 80's onward) has remained pretty constant, until recently.

[cyberpj]

8. Kickin it up. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. 25% of Texans don't have health insurance

Wow.

[Quantess]

10. Is anyone else unnerved that this is British news?

Meanwhile you won't find this info so easily on major US media outlets.

[sad sally]

11. America - not so beautiful for so many...

Behind the poverty numbers: real lives, real pain

By DAVID CRARY
AP National Writer

Working-age adults make up record share of US poor

At a food pantry in a Chicago suburb, a 38-year-old mother of two breaks into tears.

She and her husband have been out of work for nearly two years. Their house and car are gone. So is their foothold in the middle class and, at times, their self-esteem.

"It's like there is no way out," says Kris Fallon.

She is trapped like so many others, destitute in the midst of America's abundance. Last week, the Census Bureau released new figures showing that nearly one in six Americans lives in poverty - a record 46.2 million people. The poverty rate, pegged at 15.1 percent, is the highest of any major industrialized nation, and many experts believe it could get worse before it abates.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FACES_OF_POVERTY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT?du

[whatchamacallit]

12. Male median income peaked in 1973

Pathetic.

[Sirveri]

13. Technically the 'Clinton Plateau' is higher than the '73 peak.

The actual peak is at 2000.
1973: 35,336$
2000: 35,885$

[Rex]

14. Repukes don't give a shit, well the ones with jobs.

You never hear from Repukes that don't have jobs! Evidently they don't exist...just lazy, liberal welfare cheats! Repukes that can't find jobs sail to the Undying Lands never to be heard from again!