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by postscapes1 2518 days ago
Article by Noah Smith on this. It's way hgher than I would have expected. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-07-30/u-s-ec...
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Well that’s a stupid article. The operative words: “Defined by the percentage of the population earning less than half of the median national income”. In an absolute sense, Japan has no poverty.