![]() However, between May and October 2020, some eight million people were put into poverty due to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ending of funds from the CARES Act. Census Bureau showed the percentage of Americans living in poverty for 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic) had fallen to some of lowest levels ever recorded due to the record-long period of economic growth. On the other hand, poverty guidelines are simpler guidelines that are used to determine eligibility for federal programs such as Head Start and food stamps. Poverty thresholds, which recognize poverty as a lack of those goods and services which are commonly taken for granted by members of mainstream society, consist of income levels. Census Bureau, used for statistical purposes, and the poverty guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, which are used for administrative purposes. federal government uses two measures to measure poverty: the poverty thresholds set by the U.S. population lived below the international poverty line of $2.15 per day in 2020. population earn less than $10 per day, with only 23 countries in the world having a lower percentage. The poverty threshold in the United States was at $12,880 for a single-person household and $26,246 for a family of four in 2021. Although the US is a relatively wealthy country by international standards, poverty has consistently been present throughout the United States, along with efforts to alleviate it, from New Deal-era legislation during the Great Depression, to the national war on poverty in the 1960s and poverty alleviation efforts during the 2008 Great Recession. The vast majority of people living in poverty are less educated and end up in a state of unemployment higher incarceration rates have also been observed. Some of the many causes include income inequality, inflation, unemployment, debt traps and poor education. In 2020, there were 37.2 million people in poverty. In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC.Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2017. The Rural America Documentary Project The Darlene Chronicles.īoston, MA: The Walter J. ![]() Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. “The Rural America Documentary Project The Darlene Chronicles.” Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, “The Rural America Documentary Project The Darlene Chronicles,” Broadcast Date Asset type Episode Media type Moving Image Program."-1995 Peabody Awards entry form. O'Connell in 1976 and featured Darlene in its very first "Enclosed for your consideration please find articles about WPSX-TV's publicĪffairs series, 'The Rural America Documentary Project' which was created by Through it all, Darlene remained as open asĮver in allowing the most personal details of her life to be recorded. Indoor plumbing, but Darlene's personal life was as complex as ever as a newĬompanion had entered her life and her grandchildren began growing up in the "Then, in 1995, as Darlene moved form the tumble-downĬabin into the deteriorating home she spent decades saving to buy, O'ConnellĪssembled a 25-year chronicle of Darlene's life. Presence, recording their day-to-day lives without the intrusion of outside Longitudinal study matched only by the '7 UP' series, O'Connell returnedĪgain and again to Darlene and her family. Grew up, moved away and became estranged from their mother. O'Connell (author of Robert Drew and theĭevelopment of in America), followed Darlene as her children To understand the personal dimensions of poverty. Universities, secondary schools and community groups since 1970 in efforts Visiting has been used by hundreds of colleges, Visiting With Darlene was the first of three programs produced aboutĭarlene's rich and complex life-a life with her husband, 5 children, and In a converted hunting cabin without running water or indoor plumbing. Project.' "Darlene (27 years old when we first meet her, in 1970) lived It is part of WPSX-TV's long running publicĪffairs series on rural life titled 'The Rural America Documentary Observational documentary shot over a 25-year period about an Appalachian Was lived, year by year, over many years. Series Description "Most documentaries capture a moment in time.
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