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Re:Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a ... by nsxwolf on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:18AM (#35988288)
"In the United States: 6,660 people died from hypothermia or exposure to cold from 2006 to 2010, an average of 1,320 deaths a year." [1]

It isn't split up along poverty vs. accident lines, but this is not a major cause of death in the US.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr076.pdf

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Re:Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a ... by JohnFen on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:52AM (#35988818)
The deaths amongst the homeless are underrepresented in the statistics for obvious reasons. But ignoring that...

> this is not a major cause of death in the US.

Wait, so people dying due to poverty isn't something that deserves attention just because it isn't common enough?

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Re:Americans Have Never Been So Unwilling to Relocate for a ... by ars on Thursday May 18, 2023 @12:12PM (#35990143)
This discussion is if the United States has an issue with poverty, and the answer is: no it does not.

A tiny fraction of people dying from cold is not an indication that the US has a poverty issue.

Sure help them, no one is disputing that, but that's also not what's being discussed here.

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