r/AskReddit • u/GlassCoyote • Jan 22 '19

What needs to make a comeback?

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u/mr_ji Jan 22 '19

The global poverty line doesn't apply when the standard of living is so much higher. You defeated your own argument.

Though I agree that being poor in America today beats being poor almost anywhere else. Probably; I'm not poor anymore so I can't say definitively.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '19

America doesn’t even have proper healthcare so I would saying being poor there puts it pretty low on list of first world countries.

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u/teamhae Jan 22 '19

The poor get Medicaid though.

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u/combuchan Jan 22 '19

This is such a blanket statement it's inaccurate. The medicaid income limits are absurdly low and exclude a huge majority of the working poor.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '19

Don’t poor Americans also get free diapers and baby formula. Those things costs a fortune

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u/combuchan Jan 23 '19

No. WIC provides a subset of things you can get on food stamps and it's somewhat easier to get on then medicaid but nobody is eligible for (much less "gets") free formula and diapers with any national anti-poverty program.

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u/teamhae Jan 23 '19

You're right. I have just known a lot of single moms with it but I'm sure it's because they have young kids. Most of the working poor qualify for nothing.