Editing Poverty threshold (section)

====Women and children====
Women and children find themselves impacted by poverty more often when a part of single mother families.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=https://cdn.americanprogressaction.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2008/10/pdf/women_poverty.pdf |title=The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty |website=cdn.americanprogressaction.org |date=October 2008 |access-date=1 April 2019 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709091921/https://cdn.americanprogressaction.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2008/10/pdf/women_poverty.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> The poverty rate of women has increasingly exceeded that of men's.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Handbook of the Sociology of Gender|pages=127–145|doi=10.1007/0-387-36218-5_7|chapter=The Feminization of Poverty|series=Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research|year=2006|last1=McLanahan|first1=Sara S.|last2=Kelly|first2=Erin L.|isbn=978-0-387-32460-9}}</ref> While the overall poverty rate is 12.3%, women poverty rate is 13.8% which is above the average and men are below the overall rate at 11.1%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://talkpoverty.org/basics/|title=Basic Statistics|website=Talk Poverty|access-date=1 April 2019}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Women and children (as single mother families) find themselves as a part of low class communities because they are 21.6% more likely to fall into poverty. However, extreme poverty, such as homelessness, disproportionately affects males to a high degree.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://endhomelessness.org/demographic-data-project-gender-and-individual-homelessness/ |title=Demographic Data Project: Gender and Individual Homelessness |website=endhomelessness.org |date=22 April 2014 |access-date=10 April 2020}}</ref>