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تصاویری از زندگی مردم در شهر لس آنجلس آمریکا

منطقه اسکید روی شهر لس آنجلس محل زندگی شهروندان فقیر و کارتن خواب و بی خانمان آمریکایی است که قادر به تامین هزینه های زندگی عادی خود نیستند.

U.S. Poverty Statistics

Here are the current U.S. Poverty Statistics released September 2017 by the U.S. Census Bureau .  They represent various categories of the population and the percentage of people within those categories in a poverty status:

Adults not working – 31%
Adults with a disability – 27%
Single moms – 27%
Adults without a high school diploma – 25%
Black Americans – 22%
Hispanic Americans – 19%
Foreign born non-citizens – 20%
All children – 18%
Single dads – 13%
Seniors – 9%
Married couples – 5%
Adults with college degree or higher – 5%
Full time working adults – 2%

The poverty rate has been fairly static over the past 30 years.  The rate in 1989 was 12.8% and the average for the past thirty years is 13.5%.

A homeless camp in Los Angeles, where homelessness has risen 23 percent in the past year, in May 2017. AP Photo/Richard Vogel