Poverty rate drops for first time since 2006

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0917/Child-poverty-rate-declines-in-America-for-first-time-since-2000

Some of the best news is that child poverty also decline by 2 percentage points, which would mark the first time since 2000 that it's happened. It's still a bit higher than what is was before the recession, and 19.9% is a huge embarrassment to such a prosperous country, but it's still an improvement. 

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Is there one national poverty line or do they adjust it by state/urban area? I imagine it takes a lot more money to get out of poverty in NYC than say Dallas.

I'm pretty sure the Census Bureau uses one line (I believe for a family of 4 it's around $22,000, while for a single person it's about $12,000), but it's pretty easy to find estimates of the poverty line adjusting for cost of living from economists (as well as simply guessing from knowing what CoL is in an area).