1. Please go to the US Census poverty data tool and look at the map there which should show all the counties in the United States and their poverty levels as distinguished by the depth of their purple color.

You can get there by either doing the following:

then select "income and Poverty Interactive data tool near the bottom of the page

Hovering over the county and clicking should give you a pop up box that gives the poverty rate and the county name.Please do this and compare Monterey County's poverty rate to 3 other counties . Make one of those counties from a. California or Texas along the Mexico American border b. Another one from the South of the United States. c. One from the Midwest and d. one from the East Coast. Report your findings here.

2. Using that same map where the darker the purple the higher the poverty rate, briefly describe the poverty level across the United States. Which areas have high poverty?Which have low?