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Sorry, but people are starving in America: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/US/hunger-children-america-slow-steady-starvation/story?id=14328390 http://abcnews.go.co
by up_and_up 13y ago
Sorry, but people are starving in America: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/US/hunger-children-america-slow-steady-starvation/story?id=14328390 http://abcnews.go.com/Health/US/hunger-children-america-slow...
Are you aware that many kids in America grow up without access to even a basic grocery store and decent nutrition? Starvation can be slow and steady.
- cjbprime 13y agoYes, but the starving child in Boston in your article went to a nearby world-class hospital where he was given free food. Poverty exists in the US; extreme poverty (living under the purchasing power equivalent of USD $1.25 per day) is extremely rare (<0.5%) in the US, whereas it describes 50% of people in subsaharan Africa. http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/rwss/docs/2010/chapter2.pdf http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/rwss/docs/2010/chapter2.pdf
- up_and_up 13y agoExtremely rare? 313900000 * 0.005 = 1,569,500 people living on $1.25/day in the USA?
- jlgreco 13y agoThat seems like a reasonable definition of "extremely rare". Platinum is extremely rare, several hundred tons of it are mined every year. (A number that sounds incredibly heavy, but pales in comparison to the numbers of common metals.) Half a percentage is "extremely rare" compared to numbers like 50%. Most people in America have absolutely no experience with the sort of poverty that is nearly inescapable in many underdeveloped counties. If you can't get over the "~1.5 million” thing, just consider that this is comparable to the poplulation of The Bronx.
- aspensmonster 13y agoWell, I can see it didn't take long at all for the Oppression Olympics to get underway. Edit: -1? Impress me.
- tsotha 13y agoPredictable as the sunrise in these kinds of posts.
- prostoalex 13y agoHow can that number be true if food stamp benefits net roughly $200, and earned income tax credit is $487 for a single person? Both numbers go up significantly if children are involved.
- iambateman 13y agoVery easily...if people don't have access to those services. Illegal immigrants, homeless with no ID.
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- Freeboots 13y agoIm not sure if you're taking purchasing power into account, but if not, be aware that US$1 a day is doable in many countries, but very much not in america. Poverty is relative, just saying. And for what its worth, i live in cambodia and have lived on such a budget, albeit only for 3 months.
- yummyfajitas 13y agoHunger among children is a bigger problem for wealthier families (earning >400% of the poverty line) than for the poor. http://mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa11/hstat/hsa/pages/221oo.html http://mchb.hrsa.gov/chusa11/hstat/hsa/pages/221oo.html
- ekianjo 13y agoSorry, your first world starvationhas nothing to do with the thurd world poverty you have probably never seen in your life. Stop spreading myths or half truths and get out and see for yourself what i amtalking about.
- up_and_up 13y agoI have spent time in India, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Mexico. I have definitely seen poverty.
- ekianjo 13y agoThen you should know enough to see the difference between the poverty these and back in the US. In some of the countries you mentioned some people die because they are poor. In the US, you usually don't die of that poverty. You don't live very well, you struggle to make a living and to eat well, but you don't just disappear and die like that.