Current Events > Too many Americans live in poverty and most Americans seem to actually be broke.

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80/80

Yet, and it boggles my mind, people still villainize the poor while a small pool of Americans amass more wealth, power, and influence.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-266.html

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All what matters is that bezos reaches $1 trillion. The 99% are pigs in human clothing. Watch out for the scary "sOcIaLiSm" boogyman! Bernie? What a joke!

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If you're American you don't even know what poor is.

Also do you realize your topic title and the link you provide contradict each other?

Median household income was $63,179 in 2018
Between 2017 and 2018, the real median earnings of all workers increased 3.4 percent to $40,247
The official poverty rate in 2018 was 11.8 percent, down 0.5 percentage points from 12.3 percent in 2017.
This is the fourth consecutive annual decline in poverty. Since 2014, the poverty rate has fallen 3.0 percentage points, from 14.8 percent to 11.8 percent.
In 2018, for the first time in 11 years, the official poverty rate was significantly lower than 2007, the year before the most recent recession.

So we have the highest incomes in the world save for micro-states, rising wages and declining poverty. How is that bad?

Healthcare still needs to be fixed. While it is true that the u.s., you're generally fine provided you have health insurance, a lot of people are one bad day away from being bankrupt. This is not true, say in the Netherlands.

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I wonder what it would take to trigger a flip. Itd probably be too late by then. Its probably too late now.

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But we're free as fuck bro

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