Chicago poverty Progression
1950 1960
-A documented census showed that one in five Chicago residents lived below the poverty line
- The poverty line in the 1950's was about 3,000$ a month
- In the late 1950's the poverty rate for all Americans was 22.4% which was about 39.5 million people
-In the mid-1960s, the United States declared a "War on Poverty" and established the first official way to measure it.