America’s Poor Still Live Better Than Most Of The Rest Of Humanity

Forbes: Astonishing Numbers: America's Poor Still Live Better Than Most Of The Rest Of Humanity

… This isn’t the traditional GDP numbers, nor purely economic numbers in fact. Things like quality of life, civic engagement are included. …

… However, look at it a little more closely in relation to other countries. We’re often told that to be poor in the US is much worse than being poor in the social democracies of Europe. And the bottom 10% in the US are indeed worse off than the bottom 10% in Sweden. But they’re better off than the bottom 10% in Germany or France: places where we are told that there is indeed that social democracy. …

Here is a link to the interactive data from which the report was created: OECD Better Life Index