Can someone give me a brief background of poverty in the us and in philadelphia (about 390 words)? you!

Poverty in the US and Philadelphia :

There is poverty even in relatively wealthy countries where people suffer from insufficient income or the materials which they possess. Many laws have been passed on to alleviate the life conditions of the people and to maintain their standards.

Classification of poverty can be done by measuring the income the types of houses in which the people live the education of the people. In the recent times the poverty rate declined down from 24% to 25.7%.This difference indicates more than 15,000 people from the last year are free from poverty. This city is said to have a high rate of poverty among the others.

the answer is solomon northrup. he was a free-born african american, abolitionist and professional violinist that was drugged, kidnapped and sold as slave in 1841 and remained in captivity until 1853 where he regained his freedom with the of the then-governor of new york, washington hunt. he wrote and published his memoirs "twelve years a slave" in 1853, and in this text, he tells the story of his escape thru one of louisiana's swamps (the great pacoudrie swamp) in which he ended up covered in green slime from crossing the surface of the dead water.