‘American-Style Deprivation’ Doesn’t Have to Be Our Reality

The United States has a poverty problem.

A third of the country’s people live in households making less than $55,000. Many are not officially counted among the poor, but there is plenty of economic hardship above the poverty line. And plenty far below it as well. According to the Supplemental Poverty Measure , which accounts for government aid and living expenses, more than one in 25 people in America 65 or older lived in deep poverty in 2021, meaning that they’d have to at minimum double their incomes just to reach the poverty line.

Programs like housing assistance and food stamps […]

Click here to visit source. www.nytimes.com

See also  Scrutiny of Foreign Investment in the United States Continues to Increase

By Donato