24% Think Poverty Very Severe in U.S.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Most Americans continue to see poverty as a problem in the United States, but few actually claim they are living in poverty.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 71% of American Adults think poverty is at least somewhat severe in this country. That's down nine points from 80% in September but includes 24% who say it is Very Severe. Twenty-three percent (23%) think poverty in the United States is not very or Not at All Severe. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
The survey of 1,000 Adults was conducted on March 25-26, 2013 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.