What is Poverty can be a matter of perspective: Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About Americas Poor by Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield. Eighty percent of American poor households have air conditioning. Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more. Almost two-thirds have cable or satellite TV. Half have one or more computers. Forty-two percent own their homes. The average poor American has more living space than the typical non-poor person in Sweden, France and the U.K. Ninety-six percent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry because they could not afford food. The bottom line is that there is little or no material poverty in the U.S.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 17:43:03 +0000
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