Answers for "What Do You Know About Poverty

in Hawai'i?"
1. How is poverty measured?
a. Determining the amount of money needed to buy the lowest-cost nutritionally adequate diet
identified by the United States Department of Agriculture and multiplying by 3 or
b. Estimating the amount of money needed to provide basic housing, clothing, food, and utilities,
adjusted by the consumer price index and accounting for the number in the family.
2. The 2013 poverty guideline for a family of four in Hawai'i is:
a. $25,360
b. $ 23,550
c. $ 45,570

d. $ 27,090

3. Hawaii's minimum hourly wage is:

a. $8.50
b. $9.25

d. $10.00

c. $7.25

4. A worker in Hawai'i, earning minimum wage would have a full-time, monthly salary of:
a. $1,160
b. $2,309
c. $5,201
d. $569
5. In 2012, Hawai'i's poverty rate was_______highest in the nation:
a. 20th
b. 7th
c. 48th
d. 2nd
6. In 2014 the fair market rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Honolulu is:
a. $1,820/mo
b. $3,000/mo
c. $1,382/mo
d. $977/mo
7. To afford a house in Hawai'i you would have to make a minimum of about:
a. $120,000/yr
b. $19,000/yr
c. $50,000/yr
d. $75,000/yr
8. The maximum TANF cash benefit level in 2014, for a single-parent family of three in Hawai'i is?
a. $763/mo
b. $810/mo
c. $570/mo
d.$1,003/mo
9. The hourly wage needed in Hawai'i to afford a 2 bedroom Fair Market Rent apartment or
house in 2014, (at 40 hours a week) is:
a. $7.25/hr
b. $31.54/hr
c. $13.86/hr
d. $25.00/hr
10. The average annual percentage rate (APR) on a payday loan was________%.
a. 4.00%
b.40.0%
c. 400%
d. .400%
11. In Hawai'i, the estimated average monthly SNAP Benefit in 2014 for a family of three is?
a. $824/mo
b. $511/mo
c. $367/mo
d.$1,388/mo
12. In 2012, Hawaii has less than a 7 day supply of food especially perishables; as________% of our
food is still imported weekly.
a. 90%
b. 25%
c. 50%
d.100%
13. In 2014, the cost for a 45-year old to purchase an individual Kaiser plan could range from
$164.63-$274.83 per month.
a. True
b. False
Revised 11/14