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— Forty-three percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage and a porch or patio. ** — Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, in 1970, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning. ** — Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded; two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
To find out more about America’s “poor” read “Where Best to be Poor,” by Walter E. Williams – TownHall.com