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@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).