Minimum wage is being lowered in 2015 to $7.70 an hour

More African-Americans live in poverty compared to Hispanics

To fix poverty in America President Obama said "he was going to cut military spending in half and donate it to needy families in the U.S.

People who are in poverty tend to live in suburbia and small towns.

Unemployment is at an all time at 45% nationwide

'SNAP benefits" as they are called kept 4 million people out of poverty in 2011

In 1996 Clinton-era welfare cut cash assistance to needy families. After that parents went to work and fixed their problems.

46 million Americans live in households where the government considers their income scarcely adequate.

Lyndon B. Johnson "War on Poverty" has been extremely successful over the past 50 years.

A fuller accounting suggests the poverty rate has dropped to 16 percent today, from 26 percent in the late 1960s, economists say.