Poverty Levels in the United States

There is an astonishing level of people who live in poverty in the United States. The United States breaks poverty into different categories, depending on the different types of households. The University of Michigan's National Poverty Center studied and broke down the statistics. click here for statistics, they claim that 15.1 percent of people in 2010 lived in poverty which is equivalent to 39.3 million persons.  They break children into different categories.

Children Under 18 Living in Poverty, 2010
Category	Number (in thousands)	Percent
All children under 18	16, 401	22.0
White only, non-Hispanic	5,002	12.4
Black	4,817	38.2
Hispanic	6,110	35.0
Asian	547	13.6

SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010, Report P60, n. 238, Table B-2, pp. 68-73.

They identify the different ethnicity groups and break down the number of children who are suffering of poverty both in number and percent.