Climbing income.Accounting for inflation, the median income level for the nation's households rose 2.7 percent from $39,744 in 1998 to a record-high of $40,816 last year. The average poverty threshold The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of income deemed necessary to achieve an adequate standard of living. In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed for a family of four in 1999, also accounting for inflation, was $17,029; for a family of three, it was $13,290. The Census Bureau said that except for whites, the poverty rate for the nation's major racial and ethnic groups set or equaled historic lows. Based on comparisons of two-year averages (1998-1999 and 1997-1998), the Census Bureau said no state showed a significant increase in poverty rates, while the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , Arizona, Arkansas, California, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , South Dakota, Utah, Virginia showed decreases in poverty rates. Also, the median household income The median household income is commonly used to provide data about geographic areas and divides households into two equal segments with the first half of households earning less than the median household income and the other half earning more. was up in 1999 in the Midwest ($42,679) and South ($37,422), but was statistically unchanged from 1998 in the Northeast ($41,984) and West ($42,720). |
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