{"id":172,"date":"2011-10-13T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/10\/13\/percentage-of-populations-in-the-us-living-in-poverty\/"},"modified":"2011-10-13T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T13:27:00","slug":"percentage-of-populations-in-the-us-living-in-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/10\/13\/percentage-of-populations-in-the-us-living-in-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Percentage of Populations in the US Living in Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-J92sj-Q5-Sw\/TpX80m6kKwI\/AAAAAAAAAN4\/BAi0ASBHook\/s1600\/PovertyByState.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"308\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-J92sj-Q5-Sw\/TpX80m6kKwI\/AAAAAAAAAN4\/BAi0ASBHook\/s400\/PovertyByState.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, I generated the above map of poverty using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/geo\/www\/tiger\/tgrshp2010\/tgrshp2010.html\">TIGER shapefiles<\/a> and data from the 2010 American Community Survey 1 Year Estimate. \u00a0This map demonstrates the unequal geographic distribution of poverty in the United States. Most notably, there is a sharp contrast between the relatively low percentages of the northern states and the higher percentages of southern states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C. According to the data, Mississippi (18.9%) has the highest percentage of its population living below the poverty level while New Hampshire (7.8%) has the lowest.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a shot of the data I acquired from the <a href=\"http:\/\/factfinder2.census.gov\/\">American Fact Finder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PRTkavvUre8\/TpX4i_yCGcI\/AAAAAAAAANw\/jjOfPPGGR_8\/s1600\/PovertyByStateTable.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"166\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-PRTkavvUre8\/TpX4i_yCGcI\/AAAAAAAAANw\/jjOfPPGGR_8\/s400\/PovertyByStateTable.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Although ACS estimates can be useful in identifying patterns, they can also have a large margins of error, so it should be understood that the data is limited in its capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I generated the above map of poverty using TIGER shapefiles and data from the 2010 American Community Survey 1 Year Estimate. \u00a0This map demonstrates the unequal geographic distribution of poverty in the United States. Most notably, there is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/10\/13\/percentage-of-populations-in-the-us-living-in-poverty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}