{"id":22,"date":"2003-10-06T00:32:34","date_gmt":"2003-10-06T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/10\/poverty_in_knox_county\/"},"modified":"2003-10-06T00:32:34","modified_gmt":"2003-10-06T04:32:34","slug":"poverty_in_knox_county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/poverty_in_knox_county\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty in Knox County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received a handout which lists a few interesting statistics on poverty in Knoxville\/Knox County.&nbsp; I&#8217;m unsure of the source, but have no reason to doubt them: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12.3% of county residents live below the poverty level (for a family of four defined as an income of $18,100 or less).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>21% of city residents live in poverty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>19.9% of county children live in poverty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>13.3% of country elderly live in poverty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>36.4% of employed county residents make less than $9.50\/hour (the &#8220;livable&#8221; wage in this community).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Of those living in poverty, the largest demographic group are adult females (36.5% of the total).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> It&#8217;s unfortunate that so many people are struggling, particularly since that includes one out of five children.&nbsp; Unfortunately, with the employment market as it is, I don&#8217;t see much improvement in these numbers anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/10\/poverty_in_knox_county\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Poverty in Knox County\"><p>I received a handout which lists a few interesting statistics on poverty in Knoxville\/Knox County.&nbsp; I&#8217;m unsure of the source, but have no reason to doubt them: 12.3% of county residents live below the poverty level (for a family of four defined as an income of $18,100 or less). 21% of city residents live in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}