Editing Poverty threshold (section)

====Poverty dynamics====
Living above or below the poverty threshold is not necessarily a position in which an individual remains static.<ref name=":8">{{cite journal |last1=Fullerton |first1=Don |last2=Rao |first2=Nirupama |title=The Lifecycle of the 47% |website=National Bureau of Economic Research |series=Working Paper Series |url=https://www.nber.org/papers/w22580 |date=August 2016 |doi=10.3386/w22580 |ssrn=2832584 |s2cid=157334511 |doi-access=free }}</ref> As many as one in three impoverished people were not poor at birth; rather, they descended into poverty over the course of their life.<ref name=":2"/> Additionally, a study which analyzed data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) found that nearly 40% of 20-year-olds received food stamps at some point before they turned 65.<ref name=":9">{{cite journal |last1=Grieger |first1=Lloyd D. |last2=Danziger |first2=Sheldon H. |title=Who Receives Food Stamps During Adulthood? Analyzing Repeatable Events With Incomplete Event Histories |journal=Demography |date=1 November 2011 |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=1601–1614 |doi=10.1007/s13524-011-0056-x |pmid=21853399 |s2cid=45907852 |doi-access=free }}</ref> This indicates that many Americans will dip below the poverty line sometime during adulthood, but will not necessarily remain there for the rest of their life.<ref name=":9" /> Furthermore, 44% of individuals who are given transfer benefits (other than Social Security) in one year do not receive them the next.<ref name=":8" /> Over 90% of Americans who receive transfers from the government stop receiving them within 10 years, indicating that the population living below the poverty threshold is in flux and does not remain constant.<ref name=":8" />