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wasoxygen  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Post-Capitalism Has Begun

    Why would I need a citation?
Uh, so we don't have to take your word for it? So we can examine the evidence?

    there are more extremely poor people in the US
There are more people in the United States.

Table 13. Number Below Poverty Level and Rate (XLS)

  Year - Number of poor families - Poverty rate for families
  2013 - 9,130,000 - 11.2
  2003 - 7,607,000 - 10
  1993 - 8,393,000 - 12.3
  1983 - 7,647,000 - 12.3
  1973 - 4,828,000 - 8.8
  1963 - 7,554,000 - 15.9