Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s one-year American Community Survey shows that Ullmann and single mothers like her are far from alone in the battle against poverty.
The survey found 13.5 percent of Utah’s population and 15.9 percent of the state’s children lived in poverty in 2011, a definition established by the federal government as a family of four earning $22,350 or less in gross annual income.
According to U.S. Census data for 2011, close to 10 percent of Salt Lake County households received food stamps, 17.9 percent of families with children lived in poverty, and 43 percent of single mothers with kids lived below the federal poverty line. Salt Lake Tribune
