Over 46m Americans live in poverty
About 46.2 million Americans lived in poverty last year, accounting for 15 percent of the population and including 21.9 percent of children under age 18, according to the US Census Bureau.
THE World Bank said on Tuesday more people are living in extreme poverty in developing countries than previously thought as it adjusted the recognised yardstick for measuring global poverty to US$1.25 a day from US$1.