Many adverbs end in â-lyâ. If you are not sure of the part of speech a word would be, and it ends with â-lyâ, it is probably an adverb. Examples include: 1  Financially. 2  Willfully. 3  Abruptly. 4  Endlessly. 5  Firmly. 6  Delightfully.
How Many Americans Live In Poverty? : Planet Money Almost 50 million people in the U.S. are poor according to a new report. That's three million more than the traditional poverty measure suggests. Accessibility links
The new measure of poverty takes into account medical, commuting and other living costs. Doing that helped push the number of people below 200 percent of the poverty level up from 104 million, or 1 in 3 Americans, that was officially reported in September. Broken down by age, children were most likely to be poor or low-income â about 57 percent â followed by seniors over 65.