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Three million people in the US were living on less than $1.90 a day in 2013, and five million on less than $4. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/pover
by tomjakubowski 7y ago
Three million people in the US were living on less than $1.90 a day in 2013, and five million on less than $4.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-states.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/opinion/poverty-united-st...
Extreme poverty in the US is real: https://www.al.com/news/2017/12/un_poverty_official_touring_al.html https://www.al.com/news/2017/12/un_poverty_official_touring_...
- toasterlovin 7y agoI'm skeptical of the $1.90 a day number. Those people would be dead. You literally cannot buy enough food to eat with that much money. Since we generally don't see millions of people dying of starvation in the U.S., some part of the equation must be missing.