Staggering Poverty and Homelessness Statistics
- Families make up nearly 40% of all that are homeless
- 42% of homeless children are under 6 years old
- Every 33 seconds, a child is born into poverty
- In America- more than 15% live in poverty, 22% (1 in 5) are children. That is the highest rate in the industrialized world.
- No city or country in the U.S where a worker making minimum wage can afford a fair rate one bedroom apartment without financial help. (Family Promise, 2013)
- Number of Children in the world: 2.2 billion, Number of Children in poverty: 1 billion (Shah, 2010)