Despite a recovering economy and falling unemployment rates, pockets of high poverty rates persist in Gainesville and Hall County. Although more people are working, with the unemployment rate in Hall County currently hovering around 4.4 percent, thousands of children are being reared in households living in poverty, according to data released this week by the U.S. Census. Information contained in the 2015 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates generated by the Census is used by the federal government to allocate funding for Title I programs among the 3,141 counties and 13,236 school districts in the United States.