The Economic Consequences of Homelessness in The US

The specific income thresholds used to determine people’s poverty status vary,
depending on whether the individuals are living with family members or are living alone
or with nonrelatives. For family members, the poverty threshold is determined by their
family’s total income; for individuals not living in families, their personal income is used
as the determinant.
Demographic Characteristics
Among those who were in the labor force for 27 weeks or more in 2015, the number of
women classified as working poor (4.5 million) was higher than that of men (4.1 million).
The working-poor rate also continued to be higher for women (6.3 percent) than for men
(5.0 percent). The working-poor rates for both women and men were down from a year
earlier.
Blacks and Hispanics were more than twice as likely as Whites and Asians to be among
the working poor. In 2015, the working-poor rates of Blacks and Hispanics were 11.2
percent and 10.1 percent, respectively, compared with 4.8 percent for Whites and 4.1
percent for Asians.
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