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Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since 1996

anticapitalist:

A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.

This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on less than $60 a month each, i.e., essentially on no income whatsoever.

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(h/t)

but capitalism generates wealth you guys. we’re number 1 remember.

#sarcasm.

(via amodernmanifesto)

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