US Poverty: How Is It Defined?
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Poverty is a real problem here in the United State and in the world at large. According to some estimates, 1.4 billion people in the earth suffer from extreme poverty - a condition that leaves them surviving on less than $1.25 a day. ((This information is a little dated, being now three years old. I am not personally aware of any more relevant or up to date information than this though. Taken from information found on the Extreme Poverty article on Wikipedia)) If these numbers represent reality, that means that roughly one in five human beings ...