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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
I just got back from Canada and it did not appear to me that there was anywhere near the economic disparity there that we have in the U.S. Yet I was surprised to see that they did not appear as one of the 15 countries above us in the chart. So I check inside the report and found that their child poverty rate is in the low 20's while ours was in the low 30's. So obviously they belong ahead of us. I wonder how many more there are?
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Thereby making us #17.
At best.
Actually, in 2013 we were #34.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...s-ranked-34th/
In 2013 we were at about 23%. And since then, the rate has risen to 32%, an increase of 39%.
Note that Italy is ahead of us and they have the highest childhood poverty rate in Europe.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ys-unicef.html