Why there’s so much poverty in America — and what you can do about it
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The Bottom Layer of Poverty in America
There is the poverty line, but as you explain in your book, that doesn't really tell the full picture. The Nobel laureate Angus Deaton estimated that 5.3 million of us in America live in abject poverty on $4 a day or less. "I think we have to accept just a hard reality that there's a bottom layer here in America," he says.
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