| [1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/10/poverty-rate-.... [2] https://econofact.org/employment-and-poverty I should've added that college students make up a large chunk of poverty as well, and the disabled (non-working)... Using conservative rates for child poverty, you get: * ~32% of the entire poverty population is children <18 * ~18% are disabled and don't work * ~16% is seniors * ~10% is college students * ~6.5% is single mothers * ~6% don't work (either looking for work or not) * ~10% is everyone else - including dual-parent HH, single father HH, disabled people that do work, etc... The idea that most poor people (as defined by the definition of poverty in the US) are single people working full time jobs is not possible. The poverty line is BELOW a full-time minimum wage job, and it includes money received from government transfers like SNAP, etc... Only ~29% of the poor work full-time jobs - because by definition it's quite difficult to work full-time and be "in poverty". If your definition of poverty is something else - then sure - maybe most people in that "poverty" are full-time workers. |
> Most poor people are children under 18. I guess technically, you can work at 16, so some of them probably dropped out and work full-time, but it's definitely not the norm.
> Most poor "adults" - are people >65 who aren't working full-time either.
The first bullet point in your quoted source:
> Of the 40.6 million Americans living in poverty in 2016, 56.1 percent were working-age adults, 18 to 64. Important shares of those living in poverty are children and adults aged 65 and older (32.6 percent and 11.2 percent respectively, in 2016).
I don't know why you included all these other bullets in your response. Are you just hoping that by adding extraneous information, that it would make it seem like your original statement was correct? Or that you were saying something different from what you actually said?