@Kasz You have people like that in the US, too. Just because you don't know about it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Poverty levels, I believe, are roughly the same in both the US and the UK.
Watch this if you want to know just how badly some Americans have to live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD65UKgB6hU
It's a stream of a BBC documentary (you can't watch it on the BBC site because you're outside of the UK).







