Transcription of POVERTY IN FLORIDA - EDR
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The overall POVERTY rate for persons in FLORIDA as measured in the 2000 Census was percent. This rate is slightlylower than in 1990 when percent of the state's residents lived in a decline in the POVERTY rate, the number of persons living in POVERTY increased by nearly 22 percent during the decade and totaled just under 2 million persons in 2000. The number living in POVERTY in 1990 was million rates varied greatly by age and by family composition. While nearly one out of every five children in FLORIDA livedin POVERTY in 1999 ( percent), less than 1 in 10 of FLORIDA 's 65 and older population had income below the povertythreshold ( percent). Older children, ages 5 through 17, had a POVERTY rate of percent in 1999--lower than FLORIDA 'syoungest children but substantially higher than the elderly to 400,000 FLORIDA families lived below the POVERTY threshold in 1999 (383,131 families; 9 percent of all families in thestate.)
in poverty in 1999 (17.6 percent), less than 1 in 10 of Florida's 65 and older population had income below the poverty threshold (9.1 percent). Older children, ages 5 through 17, had a poverty rate of 17.2 percent in 1999--lower than Florida's
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Copyright 1994 by National Clearinghouse, Poverty guidelines, Poverty, Poverty threshold, Coverage year 2018, Guidelines, Threshold, Poverty Levels and Federal Tax Thresholds: 2001, Families and Children Below the Federal Poverty, Policies to Address Poverty in America, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, 2016 Federal Poverty Level Guidelines ANNUAL, Federal Poverty Level for Alaska