Youth Against Poverty

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Sweden Tops List, Niger Ranks Last, United States Ranks 27th The cost
of eradicating poverty is 1% of global income.

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600 million children live in absolute poverty.

30,000 children die each day due to poverty.

That is about 210,000 children each week, or just under 11 million children
under five years of age, each year.

300 million are children go to bed hungry every day.

150 million children live on the streets, and the number is rapidly increasing.

400 million children have no access to safe water.

the United States Census Bureau will release its annual report on "poverty"
stating, as it has for many years, that there are some 31 million to 32
million poor Americans, a number greater than in 1965 when the War on Poverty
began. Evidence mounts, however, that the Census Bureau's poverty report
dramatically understates the living standards of low income Americans.

Better Off Than Europeans, Japanese

The average "poor" American lives in a larger house or apartment than
does the average West European (This is the average West European, not poor
West Europeans). Poor Americans eat far more meat, are more likely to own cars
and dishwashers, and are more likely to have basic modern amenities such as
indoor toilets than is the general West European population.

prison population

"Poor" Americans consume three times as much meat each year and are
40 percent more likely to own a car than the average Japanese. And the average
Japanese is 22 times more likely to live without an indoor flush toilet than
is a poor American.

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The Census Bureau counts as "poor" anyone with "cash income"
less than the official poverty threshold, which was $12,675 for a family of
four in 1989. The Census completely disregards assets owned by the "poor,"
and does not even count much of what, in fact, is income. This is clear from
the Census's own data: low income persons spend $1.94 for every $1.00 in "income"
reported by the Census. If this is true, then the poor somehow are getting $0.94
in additional income above every $1.00 counted by the Census. Indeed, the gap
between spending and the Census's count of the income of the "poor"
has grown larger year by year till, now, the Census measurement of the income
of poor persons no longer has any bearing on economic reality.