What are the three greatest predictors of poverty in America? ...

[Anajune7]

What are the three greatest predictors of poverty in America?
 
  What will be an ideal response

Question 2

What is the standard used by the U.S. government to determine if a family is in poverty?
 
  What will be an ideal response

[welcom1000]

Answer to Question 1

(1 ) race-ethnicity: African Americans and Latinos are disproportionately poor;
(2 ) education: the chances of being poor decrease with each higher level of education;
(3 ) sex: households headed by women are more likely to be poor than two parent families or families headed by men

Answer to Question 2

The poverty line is based on what people are believed to spend for a low-cost food budget to feed a family of a specific number of dependents, multiplied by three.

[Anajune7]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[scikid]

Gracias!