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How does the rosiness of this assessment jive with the UN’s report that 40 million Americans live in poverty? Perhaps they are an ancillary component of such a

• joefranklinsr 8y ago
  if we look at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_living_in_poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentag... it would appear US is in similar leagues with Canada, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, etc, of having close to 0-1% in poverty. Check out the other countries in Asia or Africa if you really think America has it bad.
  • setr 8y ago
    Theres only ~300 million people in the us, so the gp's source is claiming something like 10% poverty Something's clearly misaligned with the definition of poverty between your sources; you're differing by an order of magnitude
    • schoen 8y ago
      That's a huge difference. I assume different sources did use quite different measures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Measuring_poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Measuring_poverty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold
• ThomPete 8y ago
  Is that relative or absolute poverty you are talking about?