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More U.S. Kids Live in Poverty than Kids Elsewhere

Institute for Policy Studies

Thanks to the Institute for Policy Studies for this eye-opening chart showing how high child poverty is in the United States compared with other developed nations. The data is stunning—a U.S. child poverty rate of 23.1 percent, compared with 5.3 percent in Finland and 8.5 percent in Germany. Even the rate next worse to the United States—12.1 percent in the United Kingdom—is far lower. What really sets this chart apart, though, is the comparison with the percentage of those in the top 1%.

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