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homeless, underemployed and malnourished etc. in USA are far better than Homeless, Underemployed and Malnourished 50 years ago and even the lower middle class i

• Jtsummers 10y ago
  That doesn't make poverty solved. That means we've improved the lot for many people, but we haven't solved the problems of poverty. They're still homeless. They're still underemployed/unemployed. They're still malnourished. When those are consequences of anything but rational, healthy, deliberate choice [0], or very temporary circumstances, then poverty is not solved. [0] Which pretty much means religious/cultural reasons. The rationality of those choices are still debatable, but they aren't predicated on mental or physical illness.