Is anybody poor in USA, which is the richest nation in the world?

Answer 1

Yes ! of course..

Answer 2

Not by World Standards. The average "Poor" in America has a Cell Phone, Cable TV, some kinda roof over their head, etc.
Just drive through the inner city and you'll see houses that look like their about to fall down and a new Escalade with spinner wheels sitting out front, there's your American Poor.

Answer 3

Every country has got its definition of poverty.
While it may be different from other's, the criteria to be poor is certainly "upwards" from that of developing nations, i.e., for the same income computed on the basis of "Purchase Power Parity", someone in the US would be poor while his counterpart in the Third World countries would be not.
There are also dirt poors in the US, the social security provides relief.
According to an estimate, about 20% of the population is poor in the USA.

Answer 4

US considers the people on the bottom 20% of income as being poor. So we will always have poor people. The US is the richest country in the world and also the most generous

Answer 5

One in four employed Americans make less than a living wage for the area in which they live. One in 5 are underinsured or uninsured for health care. The median family income is $41,000/year, which is hardly enough to live comfortably on, and in many places, is not a living wage. 65% of homeless people work at least 35 hours per week.

The USA is the richest nation, mostly because of the top 0.1% of income earners.

Here's an interesting fact for you:

If you made a stack of new $100 bills representing the annual family income of Americans at various levels of wealth, and measured the height of the stacks, they would be as follows:

At the median family income (50% of the people make more, 50% make less), the stack would be 1.6 inches tall ($40,000).

At the 90th percentile (10% make more, 90% make less), the stack would be about 3 1/2 inches tall ($100,000).

At the 99th percentile, the stack would be around a foot tall ($300,000)

At the 99.7th percentile (0.3% make more, 99.7% make less), the stack would be about 40 inches tall ($1 million).

At the 99.9th percentile, the stack would be 30 miles tall!!!

This income disparity is why children in the US are dying from malnutrition every year. The fact that most of the income of the top 0.1% is not taxed, means that there is not enough money in the federal coffers each year to pay for everything that needs paid for...like health care for all Americans, like unlimited education opportunity for all Americans, like a sefety net for our elderly, disabled, and poor. This is why our country is in such debt to nations like China and Saudi Arabia (mostly China), that if our creditors were to demand that we pay up, each and every man, woman, and child in America would have to pay over $30,000!!! And that figure does not count interest, which due to the horrible credit that the US has, is over 20% APR!

The fact that corporations are able to pay people so little for their work makes the poverty rate in our country higher than any other first-world nation in the world...in fact, it is nearly equal to all of the other first-world nations combined!

This is why poverty is rampant in this, the richest nation in the world.

Compare this to European countries like, say, Switzerland, where there is no homelessness that is not by choice, a poverty rate (to our standards, which are the lowest in the first world) of less than 0.1%, a lower class of less than 3%, and a middle class of more than 70%! Or Sweden and Norway, where there is no homelessness (that is not by choice), and similar numbers to Switzerland. True their taxes are high, but their minimum wage is such that the net income (after taxes) of people working only 30 hours per week at McDonalds is higher than our median family income! Similar is true throughout most of the first world nations in Europe, the exceptions being the UK, Ireland, France, and Germany, which still have a far lower poverty rate, far lower percentage of lower class, and all of which have universal health care (not like Canada's, which is rated second worst of first world nations), free or affordable higher education, and a more stable economy (which is why the Euro and Yen keep going up while the US Dollar keeps going down).

Meanwhile, while we have the largest GNP in the world, we are number 84 in percent of GNP given charitably...and are the only nation in the world where 100% of all money given has very harsh strings attached (compared with the 12% of the next closest competitor, the UK). We are the stingiest nation in the world!

I suppose one could say that the poor here are better off than the poor in other nations, but not if one is being honest and comparing apples to apples as it were. In a comparison of first-world (industrialized nations), we are the worst.

Answer 6

Yes. There are poor people in the U.S.A., however, if you are using a world wide scale, the poor here are not usually as poor as people in other parts of the world, where there is rampant starvation and people without a roof over their heads. The homeless people here are usually either people that are mentally ill, or people that are alcoholics or hooked on drugs. We did not have a real homeless problem in America until Reagan (though I thought he was a GREAT president mostly) cut way back on some programs. A lot of people that belong in mental institutions being cared for, are actually our homeless.

Answer 7

In all honesty, only about 5% of the people in the US are what most folks would call rich. Most of the other 95% live either at or below poverty level. Not all poor people are drunk trailer park trash sucking dicks for five bucks. There's trash in every walk of life, just like there's good and evil everywhere.

Answer 8

Yes, there are poor people and homeless people here. However, 97% of poor people have a TV, at least 50% own a car, some have 2 cars in a household, some have washing machines and dryers, some have microwaves.
Oh, and most poor people are overweight because they eat a lot of fast food.

Answer 9

How capitalized can I get YES! Jesus said you will have the POOR with you ALWAYS.

Every nation has it's poor. Where in the dang Sam hill did you come up with the idea that this country is the exception to the RULE?

Answer 10

The official poverty rate in the U.S. has increased for four consecutive years, from a 26-year low of 11.3% in 2000 to 12.7% in 2004. This means that 37.0 million people were below the official poverty thresholds in 2004. This is 5.4 million more than in 2000. The poverty rate for children under 18 years old increased from 16.2% to 17.8% over that period. The current poverty rate is measured according to the 2006 HHS Poverty Guidelines.

Answer 11

Yes there are poor in the USA. A lot of them.