Poverty Census

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  1.5 Crore LPG Connections Issued To Below Poverty Line Households

  A Woman member of BPL family identified through Socio-Economic Caste Census data is given a deposit free LPG connection with financial assistance of Rs 1,600 per connection.

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  43 Million Americans Lived Below Poverty Line In 2015: Report

  More than 43 million Americans lived below poverty line in 2015, a US Census report said today, indicating that the world's largest economy experienced one of the sharpest decline in poverty rates in 16 years.

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  Opinion: Modi Must Release Caste Survey Findings

  The principal limitation in defining poverty in terms of a single line, as those above it being APL and those below it being BPL, is that there was no gradation from destitution to deprivation to poverty to vulnerability.

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  Poverty Rate in US Drops For the First Time Since 2006

  The US Census Bureau, in its annual look at poverty in the United States, said that the poverty rate in 2013 was 14.5 per cent, down from 15 per cent in 2012. The decrease in the poverty rate was attributed to the growth in year-round employment by 2.8 million jobs in the United States, government officials said.

• More slums dwellings with power, phone than toilets: Census data

  One-third of identified slum households in India do not have toilets, says a report based on the 2011 census but notes that a sizeable percentage of the dwellings have electricity and mobile phone connections and televisions.

• 8.2 per cent of Indian-Americans live below poverty line

  Even as Indian-Americans boast of having the highest per capita income among all the major ethnic groups in the US, more than 8 per cent of the nearly three million community is living below the poverty line, according to a latest census report.

• India's poverty line likely to be revisited by new panel

  In the wake of the Planning Commission's controversial definition of povery last year, a new panel is likely to be formed to consider the country's socio-economic profile being brought out by the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) to determine the poverty line.

• US poverty on track to rise to highest since 1960s

  While the unemployment rate improved from 9.6% in 2010 to 8.9% in 2011, the employment-population ratio remained largely unchanged.

• Caste, religion, poverty census gets Cabinet nod

  The government today approved a proposal to conduct a survey based on caste, religion and economic conditions that will help in identifying people living below and above the poverty line and their social backgrounds.The proposed census was approved at the Union Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi today.The survey i...

• 1 in 7 Americans live in poverty: US Census

  The Census Bureau in America has reported that the number of Americans living in poverty jumped to 14.3 percent in 2009, with the ranks of working-age poor reaching the highest since at least 1965.About 43.6 million people, or 1 in 7, were in poverty. That is up from 39.8 million, or 13.2 percent, in 2008.The number of people lacking health insuran...