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Can't see which chart your referring to.  Though yeah, i linked something then found something better.  Was just too lazy to link it and look at things outside the US's relative rank.

New Zealand actually seems to have improved a lot since 2007.

http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Tables_reprint.pdf


Really makes the chart interesting though, I wonder why New Zealand doesn't have those markers.

Regardless, i imagine you'd be quite surprised if you compared the poor here with the poor in your average europeon country.


The very poor isn't where the difference lies... they're covered by the saftey net.  In reality... the extreme poor are probably better off then Europe, since they would qualify for government healthcare, and the US has more aggressive treatment plans then Europe.

 

The issue is really, the people who don't meet those requirements, yet who aren't rich either... who spend their money poorly.  They get screwed because they don't plan right... and drop into the lower levels... they are fine, but poorer.