There are many families in poverty, and they can vary between married couples and single families with no husband or no wife. The percent of poverty for married couples was 5.1% in 2016. The single families with no wife in 2016 percentage was 13.1%, and single families with no husband in 2016 was 26.6%.
How Many kids are in Poverty With Their Families?
Lots of kids experience poverty in their life because their parents can't afford to give the kids what they need. The percentage of kids in the US in 2016 that lived in poverty was 21.2%. That is almost 15 million kids. That percentage means that about 1 and every five kids lived in poverty. A lot of kids can also experience being homeless. The number of kids who experienced homelessness in 2016 was 2.5 million children, and that's only in one year.