Table 15.1 compares poverty rates for different groups in 2011. As you will see when we delve further into

these numbers, poverty rates are relatively low for White people, for the elderly, for the well-educated, and for

male-headed households. Poverty rates for females, Hispanic people, and African Americans are much higher

than for White people. While Hispanic people and African Americans have a higher percentage of individuals

living in poverty than others, most people in the United States living below the poverty line are White people.

LINK IT UP

Visit this website (http://openstax.org/l/povertyprogram) for more information on U.S. poverty.

FIGURE 15.2 The U.S. Poverty Rate since 1960 The poverty rate fell dramatically during the 1960s, rose in the

early 1980s and early 1990s, and, after declining in the 1990s through mid-2000s, rose to 15.1% in 2020, which is

close to the 1960 levels. Between 2010 and 2019, the poverty rate declined to 10.5%, before rising to 11.4% in
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