If youâre creative and imaginative, a degree in art could be just what youâre looking for to express yourself. Art may not be a vocational subject â that is, one that leads to a specific career â but this doesnât mean it wonât be a good preparation for the world of work.
â. also summarizes an updated report by the US Census Bureau that 1 in 7 people in the US are in poverty. In 2009, 43.6 million people â 14.6 percent of the population-were living in poverty in the U.S., up from 13.2 percent of the population in 2008.
According to the report, 1-in-5 American children live in relative poverty. Close to half of poverty-stricken kids live in extreme poverty, which means their families earn less than half the poverty level of $11, 746 per year for a family of four. Since the Great Recession began in 2009, thereâs been a 73 percent jump in student homelessness and a 23 percent increase in child hunger.