Billy000
Democratic Socialist
- Nov 10, 2011
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So you're basically saying that a single person in a household could survive off 22,000 per year?Lol let me try explaining this again. If you doubled EVERY American household's wages, those people would still be considered in poverty by the poverty metric. You got it? Good.Map: How 35 countries compare on child poverty (the U.S. is ranked 34th)
1 out of 5 children in the US are in poverty.
The poor U.S. showing in this data may reflect growing income inequality. According to one metric of inequality, a statistical measurement called the gini coefficient, the U.S. economy is one of the most unequal in the developed world. This would explain why the United States, on child poverty, is ranked between Bulgaria and Romania, though Americans are on average six times richer than Bulgarians and Romanians.
Face it, America kind of sucks.
The only thing that sucks more is your sucky math.
Yes, my point shows the stupidity of that "poverty metric".