Fuck the World Bank numbers. I’ve been to Sri Lanka and poverty is real over there.
Oh, and “According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the official 2017 poverty rate in the U.S. was 12.3%. However, other sources placed it as high as 17.8%. [snip] The 2021 poverty threshold in the United States is $26,246 for a family of four”.
So the poverty figures are relative to the wealth of the country? That makes the numbers meaningless to compare (since there is no standard cutoff - just pick a number that gives you a poverty rate of x%).
Oh, and “According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the official 2017 poverty rate in the U.S. was 12.3%. However, other sources placed it as high as 17.8%. [snip] The 2021 poverty threshold in the United States is $26,246 for a family of four”.
So the poverty figures are relative to the wealth of the country? That makes the numbers meaningless to compare (since there is no standard cutoff - just pick a number that gives you a poverty rate of x%).