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Why do you think the United States fares poorly on measures of poverty and economic inequality when compared to other industrial nations?

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His enormous wealth and knowledge contrast shockingly with the conditions in which large numbers of its citizens live. Some 40 million live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty and 5.3 million live in conditions of extreme poverty typical of the third world

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