If you do not have a job (and around 6 per cent of Americans do not), life is hard. The government gives you a little money but it is not enough to buy everything that you need. How many Americans are poor? Around 13 per cent of all Americans are poor, but 25 per cent of black people and 22 per cent of Hispanic people are poor. The money in the USA is the dollar, which contains a hundred cents. Some coins have special names: 5 cents is a nickel, 10 cents is a dime, and 25 cents is a quarter. In taxis, restaurants, and other places people give a tip extra money on top of the price. Without this extra money, many workers do not have enough money to live. Americans do not use kilograms and kilometres but pounds and miles. Dates are also written differently from dates in Britain: 4 July is 74, not 47. Sadly, the world learned about how Americans say dates on 11 September 2001, the date that we remember as nine eleven Because the USA is such a big country, the time changes as you travel from one side to the other. When it is 12 midday