Sunday, November 18, 2007

Interactive Poverty Map

A very interesting map of the US with various poverty and population statistics overlaid. Mississippi, my old stomping grounds, is number one in terms of poverty -- 21.3% of the population lives at or below the federal poverty line (I think that's what the statistic is, anyway), and 30.9% of all children live in poverty (ranking it second in the country). It also has a large senior citizen poverty rate. It'd be interesting to see this statistic over time so we could see the trends.

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