Life on $2 a Day: US Extreme Poverty on the Rise by Gilbert Mercier --------------------------------------------------------- A fast-growing group of people in the United States, households with children, are living on $2.00 or less per person per day. This shocking condition in a wealthy country such as the US is formally labeled “extreme poverty” by a World Bank metric that gauges poverty “based on the standards of the world’s poorest countries.” Since poor Americans live in a rich country, they have traditionally been excluded from this official estimate of dire poverty in the world. newsjunkiepost/2013/08/21/life-on-2-a-day-us-extreme-poverty-on-the-rise/#sthash.atS4eHpZ.dpuf
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