The surprising truth about extreme poverty
Posted on AllSides June 13th, 2019
From The Left
In discussions of poverty in the US, child poverty tends to get most of the focus.
And I think there are good reasons for that. While the US has more poverty than other rich countries in general, it is a particular outlier on child poverty. In 2016, the US poverty rate for children (defined as the share living on less than half the median income) was 20.9 percent, compared to 14.2 percent in Canada, 11.8 percent in the UK, and a tiny 8.9 percent in Sweden. We’re just about the...