Those same levels of discounts are not available to Texans with
incomes below the federal poverty level.»
Scores on reading and math were lowest for kindergartners in households with
incomes below the federal poverty level and highest for those in households with incomes at or above 200 percent of the federal poverty level.
As of 2011, 118,809 Connecticut children, under the age of 18, lived in households with
incomes below the Federal Poverty Level.
In an era when more than 16 million children in the United States — 22 % of all children — live in families with
incomes below the federal poverty level, the school library, when properly resourced and wired, is the nexus of many pathways toward the realization of dreams.
However, GAO estimates that 10 percent of these early claimers had
incomes below the federal poverty level but lived in states that did not expand Medicaid and had incomes too low for federal exchange tax credits.
About 30 % of the people in Philadelphia live in families with
incomes below the federal poverty level.
There are 966,400 families with children under age six who are not yet in kindergarten who could potentially benefit from home visiting — 28 % of these families have
incomes below the federal poverty level.
Further, 18.1 % of families had
incomes below the federal poverty level, and an additional 15.8 % lived in borderline poverty (income < 185 % of poverty level).
Nearly 80 percent had
incomes below the federal poverty level.