CHICAGO — About ten percent of the city's population lives in "deep poverty," according to a report from the Chicago Reporter.
That's about 274,000 people. The threshhold for being considered in deep povery is making less than $5,885 for an individual or less than $12,125 for a family of four.
The Reporter provides an interactive block-by-block map examining the issue here.
The tracts are predominantly African American.
Using federal data, reporter Adeshina Emmanuel pegs Census tract 3504 in Bronzeville, which includes the Dearborn Homes public housing project, as the tract with the highest deep poverty rate.
The Reporter is a non-profit investigative enws organization focused on race, poverty and income inequality.
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