Does poverty exist in America?

[DrAdams]

Yes

No

[Varanus]

The majority of America lives in poverty. We just keep moving the goalposts to pretend we don't. The median income in the US is $31k. That's abysmal in a place where it costs $430k for a house and the cost of living is so high that it's barely possible to make ends meet no matter how much you penny-pinch.

[MrOracle]

Yes, but most poverty in America is connected to addiction - drugs and/or alcohol - or mental health. Relatively little is circumstancial, and most of those situations are solved within a year.

For the most part, poverty in the US is nothing like poverty in the majority of the world. Poor people here tend to have electricity, TVs, and refrigerators.

[Hawner]

Yes, there is. There are poor people living on the streets, families struggling to put food on the table, living on their vehicles...
Sadly, it happens.

[Snakeyes7]

It is impossible for poverty to not exist as long as someone is able to have more money than another. Even when such a thing is achieved, everyone will be as equally impoverished as they are equally rich.

[JDavid25]

Yeah, a legit place in America I could think of is Appalachia..

[notwoke]

nope, the poor used to be skinny and now their all fat. Anyone who wants a job can get one now. there aren't very many excuses left

[msc545]

Of course it does - this is like asking if the sun shines

[exitseven]

Yes, and it is getting worse.

[Guy13]

No….

[Guy13]

Societal Poverty does not exist in West. Let’s go to Burma or High Places mountains of Thailand or Phnom Penh outskirts or rural Bangkok. ALL places are impoverished when compared to USA…. where the homeless have tents snd given cash vouchers to set camps outside of San Francisco….

Where else and cardboard sign get cash, Orange 🍊, and water bottles living off the street.

[La_isla_bonita23]

There is!