Local Poverty

I did a young people's lesson this week and for part of a it, I looked up some stats on poverty in this area...

Poverty line for the United States of America, which basically means that if a person makes this much or less per year, they are considered impoverished...
single person- $10,787
Family of 4- $21,027

Poverty rate in Edgerton- 5% or 49 people
Luverne- 8.8% or 392 people
Pipestone- 9.7% or 397 people
Sioux Falls- 10.4% or 15,757 people

Also, numbers on people living on less than half the poverty line in our area...

Luverne- 3.3% or 147 people
Pipestone- 2.2% or 90 people
Sioux Falls- 4.2% or 6,363 people

That means that in Sioux Falls, there are over 6,000 people living on less than $5,000 a year.

Food for thought. Motivation for action. Because thought without action is pointless.