—number of Americans living below the poverty line 37,503,874
—receiving food stamps 52,697,417
—without health insurance 30,621,384
Poverty in the United States
Method The calculation of the poverty threshold in the United States differs from the Russian one. If it is customary in our country to be based on the income of each specific working person, in America they consider “per family”.
If, for example, two adults live in an apartment and they have two children, while their total income is less than $25,465 (regardless of how many family members work), all four are considered to be living below the poverty line.
US Food Stamps
Food Stamps. They are issued on the condition that the total income of the entire family, consisting of at least 3 people, must be below 130% of the poverty line, i.e., be about $ 26 thousand per year per family. If the family has an elderly person, disabled or with limited physical abilities, the total level of their savings can reach $3.5 thousand. If there are no such family members, then no more than $2.25 thousand. In this case, Americans have a chance to receive government assistance in the form of food cards.
In many sources, it is the number of people receiving Food Stamps that is declared as the official number of poor people in the United States.
Lack of health insurance in USA
Unofficially considered in America as a sign of insolvency. As a rule, illegal migrants, outcasts, people with a low level of social responsibility do not have health insurance in America.
The number of uninsured people began to increase rapidly after the abolition of one of the key provisions of the Obamacare preferential health insurance system by Donald Trump. As judge Reid O'Connor, who considered this issue, pointed out in his decision, Obamacare is contrary to the country's basic law, since one of its key provisions was abolished. It involved the payment of a fine in the absence of medical insurance.
