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Re:A world of free movement would be $78T richer by joefranklinsr on Saturday June 23, 2018 @08:11PM (#17384182)
if we look at this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentag...

it would appear US is in similar leagues with Canada, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, etc, of having close to 0-1% in poverty. Check out the other countries in Asia or Africa if you really think America has it bad.

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Re:A world of free movement would be $78T richer by setr on Saturday June 23, 2018 @08:28PM (#17384256)
Theres only ~300 million people in the us, so the gp's source is claiming something like 10% poverty

Something's clearly misaligned with the definition of poverty between your sources; you're differing by an order of magnitude

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Re:A world of free movement would be $78T richer by schoen on Saturday June 23, 2018 @10:38PM (#17384644)
That's a huge difference. I assume different sources did use quite different measures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Measuring_poverty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold

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