Poverty
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How to Measure Poverty in the US
The official poverty line in the United States estimates there's about 38 million people here that can't afford basic necessities. If America's poor founded a country, that country would have a bigger population than Australia. The number of homeless public school kids in America has increased by 74% since the Great Recession.
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