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United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) figures for Federal Poverty Level in 2015; Persons in Family Unit 48 Contiguous States For countries with an active poverty monitoring program, the World Bank—in collaboration with national institutions, other development agencies, and civil society. Poverty definition, the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. See more. More than 46 million Americans live in Poverty USA. PovertyUSA is the domestic anti-poverty program of the U.S. Catholic Bishops. An initiative of the Catholic. Statistics on poverty and social exclusion. Produced by New Policy Institute with support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Information about poverty, its assessment, its impacts, and initiatives to reduce poverty internationally. Includes a special collection of the literature of poverty. The Census Bureau reports poverty data from several major household surveys and programs. See a brief, simple display about world poverty. Animated maps show how often people die of hunger, AIDS, malaria, and preventable diseases. Poverty is general scarcity, dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. [1] It is a multifaceted concept, which includes. SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010, Report P60, n. 238, Table B-2, pp. 68-73.