Examining Extreme and Deep Poverty in the United States
On January 24, 2018, Nobel Prize–winning economist Angus Deaton published an op-ed in The New York Times entitled “The U.S. Can No Longer Hide from Its Deep Poverty Problem.” According to Deaton, 5.3 million Americans are living on less than $4.00 per day and “are as destitute as the world’s poorest people.… [Their] suffering, through material poverty and poor health, is as bad [as] or worse than that of the people in Africa or in Asia.”
Source: heritage.org
