Kentucky - 19.0% Alabama - 19.2%
Children - 24.3% Women - 18.2% Men - 14.0% In Alabama alone there are nine hundred thirty-six thousand people are affected by poverty. As well as, in Kentucky eight hundred forty-six thousand two hundred sixty people are being affected. As you can tell from our pieces of evidence these two states have the highest average of people not having enough money to live. As a study took in 2016 shows, 21.2% of children and only 9.3% of seniors live in poverty at this very moment. Also in a 2014 the National Center on Family Homelessness studied state-level data and found that 1 in every 5 children live in poverty. Furthermore, across the nation 2.5 million kids become homeless every year and the poverty rate for seniors has been raised by 14.5% due to people not being able to make the money they need to live a healthy life. |