This is a wonderfully counter intuitive finding from the new Credit Suisse Wealth Report. There're more poor people in America than there are in China. No, really, this is true, when measuring by wealth. We've not got the detailed number of the United States alone as they're offering the information [...]
Reading their spin on this as a positive was like reading the ramblings of a madman. When they were going on about how countries like the US were actually more developed, and how the poor could still get food and shelter and education (largest homeless population in developed world what?), or when they said there "were no poor" in America at the end I kept wondering to what extent this person is capable of perception.