[FreeReign]

So then the other two out of three live where?

the cities and rural areas

I understand that. The question was rhetorical. What is implied is that more poor people live in rural areas than in either the cities or the suburbs, which I find surprising.

[Timpanagos1]

Not at all, as they are likely using a national poverty level based on income, and skewed towards the cost of living in a suburban or urban area.

Thus those making 50k in an urban area would be considered in poverty and their reality would be poverty. And those living in a rural area would be considered living in poverty, but their reality would not be poverty.

Cities are expensive.

[Graybeard58]

What is implied is that more poor people live in rural areas than in either the cities or the suburbs, which I find surprising.

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Go exploring through Appalachia or rural Mississippi or hundreds of Indian reservations.