Baraka_Guru

Okay, this is interesting.

I did a cursory search through Google News for U.S. articles containing the keyword "poverty," and what I can tell from what I came up with, the media generally considers (at this time, anyway) poverty to be something that happens either a) outside the national borders—namely, Mexico and Africa—or b) within families of illegal immigrants, who for some godforsaken reason keep breeding.

Holy shit.

I thought the U.S. had a much wider problem with poverty than this.

As a comparison, there were several articles in Canadian media that discussed issues of domestic poverty. I didn't even bother to check British media, as I'm certain I'd find more there as well.

I understand the U.S. is the wealthiest land in the world, but seriously....

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