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People living below the poverty line seems to be discussing # of people, not their quality of life. Whatever study this is presumably controls for poverty line
by jeffgreco 10y ago
People living below the poverty line seems to be discussing # of people, not their quality of life. Whatever study this is presumably controls for poverty line country-by-country.
So: sure, ridiculous if you came to the stat looking for "worse off," I guess?
- refurb 10y agoand for people living below the poverty line - US is 36th out of 162 countries, behind Morocco and Albania. What else could that comment be claiming? It wouldn't really make much sense if the claim was "more people live under the poverty line in the US than Morocco, but they are among the most wealthy people in the world."
- Sharlin 10y agoIt does if it's wealth distribution one is interested in and not absolute wealth. Large wealth/income disparity within a country is a bad thing in several ways.