Income Vs poverty? Where does your state fit in? Click on to your state for the statistics? Some are pretty grim. In New York the average income is $42,858 {2002-03} while the poverty is 14.2%. In Texas income is $40,170 and the poverty is 16.3 %. Why is that do you think?

Rose
 
 http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/census_2000/framesource_income.html