Poverty in the U.S. is getting much worse, and things don't seem to be getting better. The poverty rate is now 15.1 percent, the highest of any major industrialized nation. That means that almost one out of six Americans live in poverty, but people don't seem to see just how much people are suffering since they only see the numbers. However, the Associated Press wrote this article to put faces to the numbers and showed real people and communities in our country to show just what they have to go through on a day to day basis to survive. Many are surviving with less than $20,000 a year, and even whole communities, like Pembroke, are suffering with their entire community shutting down due to schools, banks, gas stations, supermarkets, and many more shutting down. Many people don't realize what poverty means, and many more don't think it's ever going to happen to them, like with Kris Fallon who once earned $100,000 a year combining with her husbands income, but now her husband has to work out of state and she admits that she fully understands what it's like to struggle in poverty and just how hard it is to get back up from it.
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