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by bluGill 2528 days ago
To be fair, the poster he replied to doesn't either. The only people living in deep poverty in the US are actively avoiding the help that is available to them. It has been argued that the poor in the US have it worse than the poor in Europe, but in neither case are they are in deep poverty.
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tomjakubowski 2528 days 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-st...

Extreme poverty in the US is real: https://www.al.com/news/2017/12/un_poverty_official_touring_...

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toasterlovin 2528 days ago
I'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.
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pas 2526 days ago
Actively avoiding? What do you mean by this?

Neither are in deep poverty? I happen to live in Hungary, and well, see for yourself:

https://budapestbeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/one-qu...

https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/buffett/hungary/img/single/ma... (this is from Slovakia)

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