I am not sure, however, what the bottom line is that Trudeau wants to get across to readers. Is he pointing out the fact that we have poverty? Or that our poor are better off than the poor in Bangladesh? Or that ... oh well!
In any case, if you prefer a few words to compare the poor in the US versus the poor elsewhere, then let me quote from a previous post:
The typical person in the top 5 percent of the Indian population, for example, makes the same as or less than the typical person in the bottom 5 percent of the American population. That’s right: America’s poorest are, on average, richer than India’s richest — extravagant Mumbai mansions notwithstanding.
BTW, I thought Bangladesh was no longer the poster child for poverty, and that it was Somalia or Ethiopia :(
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