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Poverty in America
Global Poverty
Poverty and Children
Hunger
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True or False: Minimum wage is the same for each state in the US.
False.
100
True or false: Extreme poverty is defined as living on one to two dollars per day.
True.
100
There are about 2.2 billion children in the world. How many of these children live in poverty? (a) 0.5 billion, (b) 1 billion, (c) 1.5 billion
What is 1 billion? Nearly half of all children live in poverty.
100
One in _______ people will go to bed hungry tonight. (a) 5, (b) 7, (c) 10.
What is one in seven?
200
This state has the highest poverty rate in the USA.
What is Mississipi? Mississipii has a poverty rate of about 21%, and over 30% of all children in Mississippi are living in poverty.
200
This percentage of people world-wide live withouth electricity. (a) 15%, (b) 20%, (c) 25%
What is about 25%?
200
One in every _____ children in the USA are homeless. (a) 30, (b) 50, (c) 70
What is 50?
200
True or False: Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
True.
300
True or False: A family of four is considered in poverty if they make less than $22,350 per day.
True.
300
Europe spends more money each year on this than the entire world spends on water and sanitation.
What is ice cream?
300
This many children die each day world-wide due to poverty. (a) 220, (b) 2,200, (c) 22,000
What is 22,000 children each day?
300
For the price of one missle, lunches for an entire school could be provided for this long. (a) 5 weeks, (b) 5 months, (c) 5 years
What is 5 years?
400
This family type has the highest rate of poverty in the US.
What is single-mother families?
400
Three billion people - or half of the world's population - live on less than this amount each day.
What is $2.50
400
In the USA, about 11% of white children are living in poverty. This percentage of Hispanic children are living in poverty.
What is about 31%?
400
There are more hungry people in the world than there are people in the these countries combined - the European Union, the USA, and _____________.
What is Canada? The combined population of these places are about 841 million, while there are 925 million hungry people world-wide.