Snapshot of Oklahomans in poverty
Oklahoma’s Poverty Profile: 2008 is a new two-page fact sheet of graphs and analysis that spotlights some of the salient characteristics of the population living in poverty in our state. The information is all assembled from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, which was released this past August. Among some of the findings presented in the fact sheet:
- Nearly one in six Oklahomans (15.9 percent) lived below the federal poverty level in 2008, which was just over $22,000 annual income for a family of four. The state’s 2008 poverty rate was unchanged from 2007 but remained 2.7 percentage points higher than the national average.
- Forty percent of those in poverty, and 6.4 percent of the total population, had incomes of less than half the poverty level (see chart). Read the rest of this entry »
