Thursday, September 3, 2015

The Number of Americans Living on Less Than $2 a Day Is Skyrocketing @alternet

The Number of Americans Living on Less Than $2 a Day Is Skyrocketing @alternet
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Tim Nolan said...

The World Bank and other global institutions use a very specific measure to record global poverty rates. They gather data designed to record the number of people in a country who live on less than $2 a day, and then use the information to make a “poverty headcount ratio”— the percentage of people in a country who live under this standard. In most recent data, Sierra Leone, for example, had a staggering 82.5% of its citizens living in poverty by this count.

September 3, 2015 at 8:17 AM

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