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Given that most poor Americans don't work [1] and yet have more money than 95% of Indians [2], you'd expect these problems to be solved in the US. Particularly

Given that most poor Americans don't work [1] and yet have more money than 95% of Indians [2], you'd expect these problems to be solved in the US. Particularly since Americans also have free libraries, free schools where teachers show up, and internet access is a tiny fraction of the consumption available to poor Americans. So are these problems solved there? Since education is available to Americans, why haven't they all used it and acquired higher wage jobs? [1] See table 3, http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/demo/p60-252.pdf http://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publication... [2] http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-the-have-nots/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/the-haves-and-t... THESE NUMBERS ARE ADUSTED FOR PURCHASING POWER PARITY

b3550943 10y ago
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/63-of-americans-cant-afford-500-car-repair-or-1000-emergency-room-visit-300200097.html http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/63-of-americans-cant... Ironically I have enough cash to outright buy a new car and I only earn 8k/year.
st3v3r 10y ago
You honestly did not read my comment, did you? Tell me, when are you going to find the time to visit the library or these free schools (which do not exist everywhere, only in a few places) when you're working two jobs trying to make ends meet? Further, the amount of money an American has compared to an Indian IS NOT RELEVANT IN THE SLIGHTEST. It's called "cost of living". Look it up. $15k buys you a fuckload of stuff in India. Look at how much it buys you in the US. Seriously, you have no idea what you're talking about. A high school education is available to all Americans. That's it. And high school education does not translate to high wage jobs. One needs higher education for that, which is not available to all Americans.
- yummyfajitas 10y ago
  It's called "cost of living". Did you somehow miss the sentence in all capital letters that I put right after my second reference? Not to mention the axis labels in my second source, as well as all the text in my second source addressing this point?

b3550943 10y ago

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/63-of-americans-cant-afford-500-car-repair-or-1000-emergency-room-visit-300200097.html http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/63-of-americans-cant... Ironically I have enough cash to outright buy a new car and I only earn 8k/year.

st3v3r 10y ago

You honestly did not read my comment, did you? Tell me, when are you going to find the time to visit the library or these free schools (which do not exist everywhere, only in a few places) when you're working two jobs trying to make ends meet? Further, the amount of money an American has compared to an Indian IS NOT RELEVANT IN THE SLIGHTEST. It's called "cost of living". Look it up. $15k buys you a fuckload of stuff in India. Look at how much it buys you in the US. Seriously, you have no idea what you're talking about. A high school education is available to all Americans. That's it. And high school education does not translate to high wage jobs. One needs higher education for that, which is not available to all Americans.

yummyfajitas 10y ago
It's called "cost of living". Did you somehow miss the sentence in all capital letters that I put right after my second reference? Not to mention the axis labels in my second source, as well as all the text in my second source addressing this point?