This section explains that poverty in the U.S. varies by race/ethnicity, gender, age, region, and family structure, rather than being evenly distributed.

This paragraph introduces the creation of the official poverty line and explains why the government needed a way to measure poverty.

there are so many families who are barely above the poverty line and one crisis way from being in poverty just seeing the numbers made me realize there are so many families who are in this situation

this chapter helped me realize poverty shouldn't be viewed as embarrassing because nearly everyone goes through it

episodic meaning almost everyone experience's poverty temporally and are able to get out of poverty

by the economist Mollie Orshanky

that's a lot of food