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This site lists the percentage of Ohio's Poverty.It mentions that poverty in Ohio is located in major cities which means that poverty in Ohio is linked to the market. I was pretty shocked when i found out that Ohio has the 24th highest poverty rate in the United States.

oh thats so eye opening

This article was really a wake up call. I never realized that that many people were in poverty, and i never really thought about how many children were in poverty. This is a really good article if you are interested in the statistics of poverty

I cant believe how many people are in poverty in our country

I was so surprised when i read this. I had absolutley no idea how many people were affected by poverty, especially children.

This is very interesting and its good to know the percentages for poverty rates and stuff. it is kind of sad, though, how extremly high all these percentages are.

I am amazed that the official rate of poverty was 14.3 in 2009. from the 13.2 from 2008

The statistics were crazy shocking!!!

It's sad how much the people in poverty goes up in only 1 year.

I thought this website was improtant because it showspeople about what some one living in poverty actually looks like. They could have a job. You might see them everyday and not know what they are living like. We know that the only way to break stereotypes is to educate. This article does just that

Ithought it was sad how it stated that poor people have usaully have jobs but they don't pay enough to suport them. so they work more hours than what my parents work.

Some of this stuff is good to know. Some good facts about people in poverty.

I like the quiz on this site. The facts and statistics were interesting too.

i know but its so sad the number of hungry people including kids (take the quiz)

I took the quiz and missed questions 9. good article Kristen

I was so sad when i found out that in 2009, 15.5 million (20.7 percent) children under the age of 18 were in poverty. Just imagen there could be some in are class.

it was sad that throughout the years the percent tile has increased but it is a good thing that some of the numbers are going down aswell. that means people are getting better with their life. :D but its still veeery sad that people have to live like this.

All the statistics started to scare me. With all of the percentages and numbers, and with them RISING< it just is kind of worrying me.

I can't believe 11% of all families are in poverty. That's about one in ten families. I know at least ten families... It's too bad that there is enough money and resources for everyone, but after preschool, everyone forgot how to share. Imagine how the world would be more serene if everyone had the same amount of money.

I was surprised to hear that 5.6 million people in the U.S. have used food pantries, that is a lot more than I thought.

i never knew how big of an impact food pantries had. i was surprised that 4.8% of people in the US had to go to a food pantry once...i thought only a few homeless people went there. and that 57% of people in poverty get reduced lunches in school...i could not imagine how embarassing that would be.

I really like how you can quiz yourself on poverty. I learned a lot from that. Some information was very surprising but at the same time very depressing/sad.

Woah. Holy crap, I didn't know that there was so much poverty in the world. when I read those statistics I was like O_O

"In 2009, 5.7 percent of households (6.8 million households) experienced very low food security." That could anyone you know. This tells what Mrs. Smith and what Mrs. Lanka was saying that you could know people that are in poverty but aren't aware.

Whoa. That was some high statistics. And that one about kids at the beginning , i was all "Awwwww thats so sad." :'(

I like how you can quiz yourslef over poverty. The stastics and facts are really eye opening/ interesting to learn about.

i got a hundred percent on the quiz! But it was really eye opening to find out that most people in poverty aren't in urban settings.

This is a great website. I love how it has all the statistics. It's just really sad to see how bad poverty has gotten over the years :^(

I was really surprised by how many people are in poverty and how fast it was rising.

All these stats iterally made my jaw drop. I'm sure everyone would agree that these are very weighted words.

This article is mainly about how poverty is caused and why

This site will tell about facts and causes of poverty. It really amazed me how most of humanity lives on just a few dollars a day.

This article contains the causes of poverty as well as possible solutions. This article aslo has many other arrticles within it about poverty. I was amazed at some of the statistics this article gave but also hopeful that the problem is being addressed and solutions are being thought of.

This website Starts with some poverty facts like that 1 out of 2 children live in poverty. Then it continues with an article. Almost Half the world lives on 2.50 a day. Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen. It also has some solutions to poverty.

This article had several subsections about things like major causes and poverty around the world. It had a lot of statistics about poverty that I didn't know before like the fact that less than 1% of what the world spends on military wepons was needed to put every child in schools by 2000 but id didn't happen, or that 1 out of 2 children live in poverty around the world. It was really sad.

Almost half of the people in the world live on $2.50 or less per day. 1 billion children are in poverty. Growing countries with growing economies put financial stress on people in poverty because things cost a lot of money to provide the government with money. I thought this was interesting learning about how poverty affects the world and how not much is being done for people in poverty.

Sometimes it isn't your fault for being in poverty. You may be born in poverty, and you may have not have a lot of money to begin with. But some people have addictions to drugs, alcohol, gambling etc.

This site gives reasons for poverty as well as data. This site is a compilation of a lot of articles on poverty through 2000.

this article has a lot of facts and statistics about poverty. It was really shocking to see that 80% of the world lives on less than $10 a day. and that Less than 1%of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000.

Wow, my gosh. I feel so bad for those people that can barely even stay alive because they can't afford food... I really can't imagine what it's like to feel like that D:

Many people are confused why people are getting into poverty. Here is some good explainations. This really helped me understand more.

i cant imagine that happeneding to me or let alone anybody else!!! i want to buy food for all people in poverty now!

This gives you facts of poverty around the world. 22,000 children die around the world thats sad for so many people kides because the cause the poverty. We need to stop this.

The article gives many facts about the world wide issue, poverty. Almost half the world - over 3 billion people - live on less than $2.50 a day. Ths also gives graphs and stats about the percent of people in the world at different poverty levels. It gives many other graphs and stats too but i found this one the most interesting.

wow 2.50 dollars? dang thats horrible. thats like lunch for us.. its pretty depressing that these people live like this. this topic just makes me really depressed..

This article talks about what causes poverty.

no really? sorry but really

This is about what the causes of poverty are and what people going through poverty have to live with every day. I was surprised that over 3 billion people have to live off of less that $3 a day considering how much things cost here. A school lunch for us is around there so that is like just eating one meal every day.

I think that the charts and graphs on this website were interesting. It's shocking that over 3 BILLION people around the world are living off of less than $3 a day.

that is sooooooo big and i agree with kayla! i cant belive that people are living off of 3$ a day! i could never do that! rhat is less than what we pay for lunch!

It really amazed me how little they live on a day. They live on a dollar a day and I go the mall and buy $100 worth of clothes.

It Disturbied me to learn that about every min some where in the wolrd a women dies giving birth. It also shocked me that about 40% of the worlds population doesnt have bacis sanitary water.

A lot of the facts in this are pretty suprising, like that every 3.6 some one dies of starvation.

It was really disheartening to hear that over half the people in the world live on less then 2 dollars a day

It made me feel really bad when it said that six million kids die every year from malnutrition before their 5th birthday.

I could not believe that 800 million people every day go to bed hungry, and that 300 million of them are kids.

800 million people go to bed hungry every night! I don't even know what it feels like to be starved or to go to bed without food. I can't even begin to imagine what these people are going through.

Tara's right...it's hard to put yourself in somebody else's shoes when you are so used to having basic things, like food. But it's important to try.

The Paragrapsh that really caught my attention was the phone tittled "Big corperations make poor pay higher taxes" becuase it just seems crazy to me that you would tax the people who are the most likely not to be able to pay? not to mention the majority who would be buying the corperations product?

If i was hungry before i went to bed, i would just walk downstairs and get a snack. It's hard to imagine that these people do not have that, and that they are almost always hungry. I just can't even imagine that.

mr reed the world sucks te rich are paying incentives to government so they wont raise taxes on the rich. so where are they gonna get the money? middle and lower class people!

This article is very depressing, the way it's written. But, it does have very interesting facts. It's hard to believe that basically 1 in 6 people are living on less than a dollar a day. In our country, a dollar can barely buy you a burrito or a burger. Although some people may use the excuse that stuff costs less in other places, so what? In our country, the minimum wage is about $56 dollars a day, and a lot of people have other money saved up. It seems like so much, compared to the less than one dollar, but people are barely getting by on that. It's just not fair that a lot of people have a ton of money, but there are more people living on pratically no money.