[marcusverus]

I find it utterly bizarre that this kind of ignorant hand-wringing is so pervasive. The US median household income is ~6x the global median. The average US household in the bottom income quintile has an income above global median before accounting for 10s of thousands of dollars in in-kind transfers (i.e. welfare).

> 35% of kids don’t have enough calories per days to have a proper brain development.

Utter nonsense.

[dopidopHN]

Oh yeah their is so much rich folks in the US.

Yet, I never seen that much poverty before moving here. I guess it’s just more visible.

Gini index would be a good addition to your figures.

Regarding a third of kids being hungry on a regular basis. I had it wrong indeed. It’s more 20% of black kids. Wee!

Source : https://www.cpex.org/blog/stateofhunger

[marcusverus]

The article says nothing about children lacking the calories required for brain development. It says 23% of black households self-reported "not having enough food in the past week". Which is weird, because when I go looking for objective data that might support the assertion that a significant percentage of the population isn't getting enough calories, I don't find anything. I did find an article that obtained weight data on both whites and blacks nationwide, and broke them down in Underweight, Normal, Overweight, and Obese categories... but the number of underweight individuals was so low that it rolled them into the 'Normal' category, and didn't even report the Underweight category. It's almost like everyone is getting more than enough to eat!

Neither your anecdata on "visible poverty" nor the US Gini index contradict the obvious fact that the USA is, by any serious measure, a rich country.

[dopidopHN]

So everything is fine and my experience is anecdotal.

It truly makes me feel better.

I should do the same exercise you did with Swiss data. That what come to my personal mind when I think of “rich country” not the lower 9th ward, or New Orleans East.

But since the US is rich like demonstrated.

I should actively start to reframe those place into “rich”. And look more at all those fat people in the street.