Lazy? Too busy nursing a bottle of Dom and mowing over homeless people in your stretch Escalade to read a 52-page report on poverty in Ohio? Below are some easily digestible statistics from the report, but you might want to check out the original [1] for the helpful infographics at the beginning, which is where I drew most of the statistics from anyway because I don’t know how to read and also I’m on the phone with my portfolio manager in the Cayman Islands.
Ohio poverty statistics:
1 in 6 Ohioans live below the national poverty level.
Our statewide poverty rate is 16.4; the national rate is 15.9
42.3% of those living in poverty work full- or part-time.
Poverty increased in Ohio by 57.7% between 1999 and 2011, though the population only increased 1.7%
Over the past 22 years, the hourly wage of Ohio’s richest 10% increased by $3.99, while wages for low-income workers decreased by 71 cents and those for middle-income workers by $1.34.
1 in 12 Ohioans living in poverty has a bachelor’s degree or higher.
Cleveland’s poverty rate in 2009 was 26.3%; in 2011, it was 34.3% (a 7.3% increase).Share [2]
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[1] http://www.oacaa.org/poverty-facts/poverty-in-ohio/
[2] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&username=questministries
[3] http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2013/01/31/ohio-is-getting-poorer