A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.
This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on less than $60 a month each, i.e., essentially on no income whatsoever.
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What do you think? Is the system working?
This is a sneaky one, but if you read the brief itself, the picture is not nearly so bleak. First off, the statistic...
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Now maybe we can start sending the kind missionaries to save the poor people in the US.
Sometimes I can’t get down with you, America.