United States Poverty Map

How does US poverty correlate with educational level, IQ, religious belief, ethnicity, skin color, age, health, criminal record and a history of family poverty?

Alaska & Hawaii are missing from your map of the “United States”….I realize it’s not convenient to plot them, but it’s really frustrating to not see how they compare to the rest of the US. I also agree more information is needed about precisely what is being plotted.

None the less it is interesting to see this information presented graphically.

I am using Opera for the mac, and I get the same thing for the larger version.

And once again we see Alaska and Hawaii are not part of the United States. It’s no wonder we get so many tourists visiting directly from the lower 48 carrying their passports around their neck.

In addition to Dr. Cool’s criticisms, I want to point out that this map needs to be shown in an equal-area projection. The current projection or lack thereof distorts the areal size of what is being used to classify the data (counties), and thus misrepresents what it is trying to show.

Dr. Cool, these maps zoom down to census tract level and you can see the poverty in each neighborhood. But you have to actually visit the website to find that out!

for the key, they put .5%, which is “Less than” .5%.

What most of you miss is the simple fact: if God Bless America, and America is #1, poverty should be a foreign word that does not exist in USA

This poverty scale is so strict. Our country is one of the wealthiest in the world and we have to have all this poverty. This scale should be used for a world map and we’ll see a lot of countries highlighted heavily in the 90%-100%. Oh, I didn’t think that Puerto Rico was that poor either!

It is time to get rid of poverty in America, to go into the new phase and phase out Social security and all welfare in America and go into the I.W.P.program that all people must be independently wealthy in America. to put all poverty into $8,500 a month income paying taxes back to the government which is the people. this will put 80 million Americans paying taxes. We don’t have enough people in America paying taxes, only 90 million are paying taxes in America this will put 80 million more paying taxes we will come out of it over night! This copyright idea is perfect it was tested and put to the pin. I.W.P.will teach Americans to stay wealthy and to never lose their wealth and how to make more money to get in a higher tax bracket. Tell your Congressman and Senate to get on it now!! or get voted out next election!!!

We have the perfect plan for getting rid of poverty in America we can come out of this over night, we have the wrong thinking in offices in Washington at this moment and the American people vote wrong again today because they had no choices to do any better, unless you can get them to think the Doug Hughes perfect plan for All Americans. Each Congressman and Senators want to keep their jobs and the same confusion going to keep thoughs offices, that how they pull one on the American people!
THe perfect plan is called I.W.P Program, this program is to phase out Social Security and all welfare which lowers your taxes on your pay check to about 12 % verses 38% you pay right now!
All poverty will be put into a tax bracket immediately starting at $8,500 a month income, all 80 million new tax payers will be taught to keep their wealth and never lose it at the same time they will be taught to use this money to go into a higher tax bracket on their own two feet, Example: to Immediately move to a 10 to 20 a month tax bracket this way the American people are paid back and getting richer by the moment, we will come out of it the first year, it is in the best interest of all Americans this happens because all jobs will leave the country to service the free world and all globalist agree if all are wealthy in America, we will be able to buy the things the rest of the world are making at cheaper prices it will be like the good old days!! We then can high tech our selves In to the future so if a world war bracks out we can service our selves like the super power we are, we are way behind in America if we don’t move ahead now! Please contact all Congress and Senate people and tell them you will use the perfect plan called I.W.P. progam or all will get voted out of all 50 States next Election because they have the wrong thinking process in Washington for all America! President OBAMA has this perfect plan on his deck now and has not reacted!
All America Must be on Alert call deman now for the right future the Independent Waelth Program!
to Phase out All Social Security and welfare In America! the New Phase the I.W.P.

Since this is census data it is most probably collected in the same manner it is in the continental US. Also, having been to Puerto Rico myself, the cost of living there is probably actually higher than in most other US states. The fact that it is a relatively small island that imports most of its manufactured goods from the US might be a significant reason for this.
Finally, the census bureau sets poverty levels according to the money income of a household only. These levels are not adjusted for variations in cost of living due to geography. For that reason in the US, any family of four for example, that has less than $21,756 per year in available income is considered poor (more info here: http://v.gd/nEj8ki).
If a thusly defined “poor” family still can have a higher standard of living in Puerto Rico compared with, let’s say Mississippi, is anyone’s guess. I’d say yes, but it depends what criteria you’d use to define standard or quality of living.

mostly agree with you; however, that region of SD you speak of is the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Lakota people populate this reservation, which is the poorest of all the American Indian Reservations (research Wounded Knee Massacre of 1973 for more information).