re: #104 FemNaziBitch

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The only issue that I have with this is the way that they are defining poverty.

A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund, on the well-being of children in 35 developed nations, turned up some alarming statistics about child poverty. More than one in five American children fall below a relative poverty line, which UNICEF defines as living in a household that earns less than half of the national median.

Since the US has by far the greatest concentration of money on the planet, the per-person median is also seriously skewed. The last reported figure for the US was over $50,000 per household (down a few thousand from the highpoint in 2000).
This report is more an indictment of income inequity than true poverty numbers, since it is only reporting on developed nations. A much fairer comparison would have been to use the actual median dollars versus comparing to an average that would by design tilt against richer nations.

I’m not disagreeing with their findings, per se, just I have issue with how they arrived at those numbers.