Figuratively speaking, becoming impoverished can happen in a matter of seconds.  An article in Forbes about America’s most impoverished cities says that “data from the Census Bureau, released in September, show that during the first year of the recession, incomes fell farther and poverty leaped higher than during almost any other time in a generation” (Zumbrun, 2009).  The US poverty rate between 2007 and 2008 “increased to 13.2% from 12.5%, meaning the recession has brought 2.6 million more Americans into poverty” (Zumbrun, 2009).  Poverty is “defined as earning below a certain income level”, and also with this comes the threat of being without food or proper nourishment (Zumbrun, 2009). 

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