America is the richest nation in the world. Our GDP was $15.09 trillion in 2012. That is enough money to eliminate extreme poverty worldwide 276 times over. Yet 146 million American’s (half of our population) live in poverty or are ‘near poor’.
Source: anarcho-queer
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I hate generalizations like this. How many decades have we been throwing money at the War on Poverty to no avail? It’s...
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measuring by gdp is stupid because national debt exists wow also relative gain *cough china* …. stop painting this...
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