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Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement by andsoitis on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:36PM (#34248697)
One should probably account for a margin of error as well as different measurement standards as well as timing differences, but by Europe and the US's own governments, Europe has double the poverty rate of the US:

- Europe: 21.7% (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...)

- US: 11.6% (https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/poverty-awareness-mo...)

So a very very generous adjustment would put them at roughly similar poverty rates?

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Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement by spookie on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @01:03PM (#34249080)
USA's poverty threshold is significantly lower that Europe's. Comparing against median income, of course.

So I would assume poverty rates are roughly similar, indeed.

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Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement by whimsicalism on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @02:13PM (#34250004)
OECD poverty rate is 60% median income.

Post-transfer median income is higher in the US than in Europe.

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