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How Poverty-Stricken Is the U.S.? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Fidelis Iyebote |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2000 |
| Size: 2,131 Words, 13,800 Characters |
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She soon discovered that "almost everyone in the United States appears rich enough to afford the luxuries of life."
"Everywhere I went," she said during an interview at Union Station, Washington, D.C.'s train-transit hub, "the impression I had was that virtually everyone owns a car."
Sounding excited over being in "the land of my dreams," she added, "I visited with friends in some homes of people who considered themselves poor, but I was surprised they had everything from computers to VCRs and even mobile telephones. I think some of the things the so-called poor in the United States own are considered luxuries meant for only the rich in some countries."
Rivera's impressions, which many other foreigners share, bring to the forefront the rivalry between the proponents of the two maj...
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...the "concept of human poverty," as declared in the 1997 UN Human Development Report, is more important than the measure, for it is difficult to reflect all the dimensions of human poverty in a single quantifiable composite indicator.
Again, income cannot be the sum total of human deprivation. Education, longevity, social factors, and quality-of-life indicators are all part of the equation.
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