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Post by Irreligious Adolf on Jan 25, 2018 8:45:06 GMT -8
“There are millions of Americans whose suffering, through material poverty and poor health, is as bad or worse than that of the people in Africa or in Asia.” Americans are used to thinking that the kind of extreme poverty that would be a concern of the United Nations is only found in far-away countries in Africa and Asia. But Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton says the poverty data used by international organizations masks a deep poverty problems in our own backyard. The World Bank says people who live on less than $1.90 per day are the world’s poorest. In a New York Times op-ed on Thursday, Deaton said that figure should be more like $4 a day in the U.S. because there are necessities of life, such as housing, in rich, cold, urban countries that are less needed in poor countries. Read More Here
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Post by Bike Flash on Jan 27, 2018 8:34:40 GMT -8
The thing is that they, us citizens, don´t want to admit the American Empire is crambling. That´s why I left long time ago
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Post by Bike Flash on Jan 27, 2018 8:37:26 GMT -8
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