It is estimated that out of the 48% below the extreme poverty line, 50,000 households are extremely disadvantaged, labour-constrained and highly food insecure.
For example, 10.9% of individuals living in counties in the extremely concentrated poverty category reported personal household incomes of $75,000 or greater compared to 17.2% of individuals in the more affluent category.
The show's producers and cast seem content to build an extreme home with extreme luxury in the middle of an extremely poverty-stricken community.
An additional 135,000 older women became extremely poor in 2012, raising the extreme-poverty rate in that group to 3.1 percent, And 100,000 older men were extremely poor in 2012, raising the extreme-poverty rate in that group to 2.3 percent In all, nearly 1.2 million people age 65 and up were classified as extremely poor in 2012.
This is due to the extremely simplistic view of poverty dynamics represented by points (1) and (2) above.
The study's authors, Mariana Garces and Steve Rendall, note in its introduction that one of the extremely few media mentions of poverty came on an episode of the CBS Evening News in response to a mere 200-word report earlier in the episode, relating to a single quote from one of the presidential candidates (who, ironically, was expressing his lack of concern for those mired in poverty).
One major consequence of the economic policy bias against agriculture that has hindered its growth in many developing countries has been the extremely high incidence of rural poverty and hence food insecurity.
The term of choice in development lexicon is that the extremely poor were "lifted out of poverty", which implies that there are some people doing the heavy lifting and others being merely lifted.
The Romanian people paid an extremely high price for his whims: extreme poverty, no growth, brutal totalitarianism.
Finally, Obamacare's designers deliberately prevented anyone below poverty from qualifying for the extremely generous subsidies available through the Obamacare Exchanges.
