One fifth of Americans live on average of $7/day

December 1st, 2006 | by aobaoill |

You know those figures about how 2 billion people live on less than a dollar a day, and half the world’s population lives on less than $2? Ever wonder just how far removed from that the developed world is?
The answer may surprise you:

Seven dollars a day. That’s not the income of impoverished residents of a lesser-developed nation. That’s the average income of the poorest 60 million of Americans.

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