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Poverty is higher in the U.S. than in other Western nations. This is because other

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The average poverty rate of Western democracies excluding the United States is 9.8%. The U.S. rate is thus 1.73 times greater than this average. ... This suggests that the relatively low expenditures on social welfare are at least partially implicated in the high poverty rates in the United States.

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