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Standard of living refers to the level of wealth, comfort, material goods and necessities available to a certain socioeconomic class in a certain geographic area (7). The standard of living includes factors such as income, employment availability, poverty rate, housing quality and affordability, hours of work required to purchase necessities, gross domestic product, inflation rate, number of holiday days per year, affordable (or free) access to quality healthcare, quality and availability of education, life expectancy, incidence of disease, cost of goods and services, infrastructure, national economic growth, economic and political stability, political and religious freedom, environmental quality, climate and safety. According to Paul Buchheit from Buzzflash, minorities are especially more likely to be cut off from quality schools, housing, health care, consumer credit, and other pathways out of poverty. Misconceptions and assumptions keep people from doing anything about the quality of life for minorities. Buchheit also provided evidence for the improved quality of poverty in America. The 1999 Current Population Survey data presumed that the national poverty rate was 11.8%, which are 32.3 million Americans who were poor. The poverty rate of among minorities went down 5.025% in the past nine