Poverty and Family Homelessness

• Over 12 percent of the U. S. population lives in poverty—one in six children.
  
  
• Families with children are the fastest-growing segment of the homeless population in the US—40%.
  
  
• Thirty-six million people, including 14 million children, experience hunger.
  
  
• About 41 million people do not have health insurance.
  
  
• A minimum-wage worker would have to work more than 67 hours a week just to keep a family of four above the poverty line of $18,104 per year for the average family of four.
  

Family Promise

• One hundred twenty six Affiliates in 38 states and the District of Columbia.
  
  
• Sixty new Networks are currently forming in four additional states.
  
  
• More than 5,000 congregations are involved in Family Promise programs.
  
  
• More than 115,000 volunteers are involved in Network programs.
  
  
• In a typical Network, half of the guests are children, most under six years old.
  
  
• One hundred service and housing programs have been developed as an outgrowth of the Interfaith Hospitality Networks.
  
  
• In 2006, 80 percent of guest families found permanent or transitional housing.
  
  
• More than 130,000 guests have been assisted by Family Promise programs.