What percentage of children (younger than 18 years of age) lived in poverty in the most recent year presented?

Using the Infographic on “How the Census Measures Poverty,” find out how the Census Bureau measures poverty. What is the current poverty threshold (poverty income level cutoff) for a family of four? For an individual?
Use the reports, press releases, and data tables to answer the following questions:
What percentage of children (younger than 18 years of age) lived in poverty in the most recent year presented? What has been the trend in this rate over the past decade? Over the past 20 years?
What is the poverty rate of older adults? What explains the difference in rates between older adults and younger adults?
Which state has the highest rate of poverty in the most recent year published? The lowest rate? Where does your state fall? How do each of these rates compare to the national poverty rate? Why do you think there are such differences in the poverty rate from state to state?
What are the differences in the poverty rate by race? What explains the higher poverty rates among minority persons?

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