Poverty, Starvation, Homelessness In the USA, In The World, Who Is To Blame? Is God To Blame?

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Poverty Statistics In 2016 the poverty threshold for a couple with two children was a shared income of $24,339 a year.
Mississippi has the highest number of people living in poverty in 2017 with 19.8
44.4 percent of Puerto Rico residents lived in poverty during 2017.
In 2017 12.3 percent of Americans lived in poverty, down from 12.7 percent in 2016.
One in three African American, Hispanic and Native-American children live below the poverty line.
One in 10 white children lives below the poverty line.
States with the highest poverty Rate
Mississippi 19.8
New Mexico 19.7
Louisiana 19.7
West Virginia 19.1
Kentucky 17.2
[Source: United States Census Bureau]
States with the highest population living in poverty
California 5,160,208
Texas 4,076,905
Florida 2,889,506
North Carolina 2,722,257
Illinois 1,569,753
[Source: United States Census Bureau]
Welfare Program Results
Following the welfare reform act of 1996, government spending on welfare programs decreased as additional requirements and restrictions were put into action. Despite having less budget to pull from and more restrictions, the welfare programs in America have successfully lowered poverty rates over the past decade. Some issues with the current welfare program are its performance during years of economic downturn and recession.
Government welfare programs are cited for the decline of the poverty rate from 25 percent in 1967 to 14 percent in 2016.

Only 23 percent of families living in poverty receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families cash assistance in the United States.    
During the great recession from 2007 to 2009, despite doubled unemployment rates, the number of families receiving assistance grew by only 13 percent. [Source:
The number of children living in poverty in the United States decreased from 44.9 percent in 2010 to 41.2 percent in 2016.
Average Spending of Welfare Recipients
Compared to the average American household, welfare recipients spend far less money on all food consumption including dining out in a year. As families receiving welfare assistance on average have half the total spending in one year than families not receiving welfare there are some large differences in budgeting. Families receiving welfare spend on average 154 percent less on entertainment and 123 percent less on healthcare costs.
Poverty: 2017
The official poverty rate in 2017 was 12.3 percent, down 0.4 percentage points from 12.7 percent in 2016. This is the third consecutive annual decline in poverty. Since 2014, the poverty rate has fallen 2.5 percentage points, from 14.8 percent to 12.3 percent.
From 2016 to 2017 the number of people in poverty decreased for people in families; people living in the West; people living outside metropolitan statistical areas; all workers; workers who worked less than full-time, year-round; people with a disability; people with a high school diploma but no college degree; and people with some college but no degree.
In 2017, there were 39.7 million people in poverty, not statistically different from the number in poverty in 2016.
Between 2016 and 2017, the poverty rate for adults aged 18 to 64 declined 0.4 percentage points, from 11.6 percent to 11.2 percent, while poverty rates for individuals under age 18 and for people aged 65 and older were not statistically different from 2016.
Between 2016 and 2017, people with at least a bachelor’s degree were the only group to have an increase in the poverty rate or the number of people in poverty. Among this group, the poverty rate increased 0.3 percentage points and the number in poverty increased by 363,000 individuals between 2016 and 2017. Even with this increase, among educational attainment groups, people with at least a bachelor’s degree had the lowest poverty rates in 2017