Current US Poverty Statistics. Income i. ï· The federal poverty line is $11,892 for individuals and $23,836 for a family of four. ï· The official poverty rate is 14.5%, meaning 45.3 million people in the US live in poverty, up by over 8 million since. 2008. An additional 97.3 million (33%) of people living in the United States are low-income, defined as incomes. below twice the federal poverty line, or $47,700 for a family of four.
Mesopotamia, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in present-day Iraq, is often considered the cradle of civilization. It was here that civilization, characterized by cities, monumental architecture, and writing, began to develop about 7,000 years ago.
Sargon I | Hammurabi | Conclusion. What historians refer to as Mesopotamia is a region in present-day Iraq that lies along and between two rivers-the Tigris and the Euphrates. Mesopotamia is actually a Greek word meaning between the rivers. The people who inhabited the region had no notion of the word. They arose in two great empires, Akkad to the north and Sumer to the south. Later they would become united under the familiar name Babylon.