Question

________________ percent of African-American families do not live in poverty. Select one: a. Forty b. Fifty-five c. Sixty-two d. Seventy-seven

Answer 1

Answer:option d: seventy-seven percent.

Explanation:

Poverty in the United States of America is measured by how many people that do not meet the Federal Government official poverty threshold. Poverty rate can be by ethnicity and by age.

The poverty rate for Black and African-Americans is twenty-three(23) percent making a total of about nine million and one hundred thousand people(9.1 million) in poverty which means that Seventy-seven(77) percent of African-American families are not living in poverty.

Few of the reasons why black and African-Americans face because of discrimination at their workplaces, education and so on.