A complete Spain lives below the poverty line in the US according to census

Wednesday, September 14th 2011 - 06:40 UTC

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The United States poverty rate hit its highest level since 1993 in 2010 with a record 46 million Americans living below the poverty line, according to a US government report on Tuesday that depicted the grim effects of stubbornly high unemployment. Read full article

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Marcos Alejandro
“46 million Americans living below the poverty line, according to a US government report”
Any comment Fred or Frank?
Sep 14th, 2011 - 02:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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xbarilox
“Forty six million Americans living below the poverty line is equivalent to the whole population of Spain.” hahaha this is so funny, and funnier because of this word: Spain, in Spain, the situation is just the same as in the US, so there is two Spains living below the poverty line. To all the jack*sses in the USA, enjoy it pals, you've worked hard for that!!!
Sep 14th, 2011 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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geo
the article ' s title is written wrongly ...
the true one should be that ,

“” A complete Hispanics live the the poverty line in US ..... “”

Hispanics ... 37.759 $
Median for all races ... 49.445 $
Sep 14th, 2011 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
an income 22,113 dollars a year. and how many argentines earn less that 22,000, that puts you lot below the poverty line,

but then again perhaps all you aries are rich,
if so, then you have nothing to gloat about,
Sep 14th, 2011 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Briton just beat me to it!
Is the USA's poverty line the same as every other nation's poverty line?
Is it a statement of Absolute poverty, or a statement of Relative poverty?

Throughout 'developed Brasil' costs are comparable or higher than in the USA, but salaries (median, mean, mode) , ownership of 'things', etc, are much, much lower.
A Brasilian family with a small house and a car would not consider itself, or be considered, 'poor', even though the family income level may be a fraction of that of a US 'poor family'.
Sep 14th, 2011 - 09:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
great
Sep 15th, 2011 - 12:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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xbarilox
you will apreciate this y ándale y ándale y ándaleeeee!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCI8O0SEuN8
Sep 15th, 2011 - 12:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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