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That's an understatement. Being poor in the US (by the official US definition) is better than being poor almost anywhere else. This paper goes so far as to arg
by nandemo 14y ago
That's an understatement. Being poor in the US (by the official US definition) is better than being poor almost anywhere else.
This paper goes so far as to argue that, in many ways, the average poor American lives at the same level or better than an European middle class person:
http://www.timbro.se/bokhandel/pdf/9175665646.pdf http://www.timbro.se/bokhandel/pdf/9175665646.pdf
- Nursie 14y agoI prefer my reports on relative standards of living, particularly those concerned with welfare and the poor, not to come from libertarian think tanks. They tend to have just a hint of bias.