The United Nations Report on American Poverty Is Just Plain Wrong

In other words, the United States looks bad only because median income is very high compared to other nations.
Which is the same dishonest data manipulation that the OECD uses when exaggerating America’s overall poverty rate (other groups that have used this deliberately dishonest methodology include the Equal Welfare Association, Germany’s Institute of Labor Economics, and the Obama Administration).
The bottom line is that the key finding of the UN report is based on a bald-faced lie.

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