International Poverty Rates
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I–VT) claims that the U.S. has “the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth.”
IN FACT, the statistics used by Sanders don’t measure absolute poverty and exclude a host of government benefits. When these are included and absolute poverty is measured, the poorest 20% of Americans are richer than the averages for all people in most affluent countries.
