This document discusses poverty in America. It notes that 46 million Americans, or 14.2% of the population, live below the poverty line, which is the highest rate since 1960. Child poverty has also reached record levels, with 16.7 million children living in food insecure households. According to a UNICEF report, the US has the second highest relative child poverty rate among developed nations. The document also states that in 2009 there were over 600,000 homeless people nationwide, with two-thirds staying in emergency shelters and one-third living on the streets or abandoned buildings. Around 1.56 million people used emergency shelters or transitional housing between 2008-2009 during the financial crisis.

1. THE OTHER AMERICA

2. Fending for themselves: Children of the Gulf feed each other in another one of Kenneally's haunting shots, which
depicts the suffering of America's poorest

3. People line up for an early Thanksgiving meal served to the homeless at the Los Angeles Mission in downtown Los
Angeles, November 24, 2010.

4. Crowded: This shot taken in Mississippi, where 12 per cent of children live in extreme poverty, and where an African-American baby
can expect to have a shorter lifespan than that of the average American in 1960, depicts the difficult conditions some people have
to sleep in.

5. GRIM STATS OF AMERICA
 46 million(14.2%) Americans live below Poverty line which has been highest since 1960(40 million).
 In 2011, child poverty reached record high levels, with 16.7 million children living in food insecure households, about 35%
more than 2007 levels. A 2013 UNICEF report ranked the U.S. as having the second highest relative child poverty rates in the
developed world
 There were about 643,000 sheltered and
unsheltered homeless people nationwide in
January 2009.Almost two-thirds stayed in an
emergency shelter or transitional housing
program and the other third were living on the
street, in an abandoned building, or another
place not meant for human habitation.
 About 1.56 million people, or about 0.5% of
the U.S. population, used an emergency shelter or a transitional housing program between October 1, 2008 and September
30, 2009(financial crisis). Around 44% of homeless people are employed.