You’re moving the goalposts. The question was why 25k or less. The answer is obvious. If you earn more than 22,000 it limits your social security check.
So what’s making people “poor” (by your standard, not mine) in this case is there government check.
If you really wanted to take a deep dive into that map you’d mainly see the heaviest concentration of black Americans (Louisiana and Mississippi) are you calling them lazy? And you’d see Appalachia.
To the Appalachia part I would agree that many are lazy. Meaning that a lot of the people who grew up there and were decent people, moved away for higher paying jobs. Leaving a disproportionate number of elderly, junkies, and lazy people behind.