Of course an conservative think tank will say that! That graph does show why you should move to the US to earn big bucks, it says nothing about being poor in t

Of course an conservative think tank will say that! That graph does show why you should move to the US to earn big bucks, it says nothing about being poor in those countries. It is a complex subject. Just going aroudn on gapminders site about how much people spend around the world it's easy to understand how complex it is. https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/ https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/ The numbers on the US states I've seen puts them in the lower brackets of the EU countries if you count precentage of the population that are poor, not bad by any means but not good. These numbers are meaningless though, especially on the subject discussed here.