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More than half of US families are one paycheck away from homelessness. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

IDK, maybe because they got like 800 million people out of poverty in ~40 years? Meanwhile, the USA just accepted 50 years ago that 10-15% of their population will be poor regardless of being the richest country by GDP in the world since before then.

Maybe.