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Old 08-09-2016, 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Joad View Post
I just got back from Canada and it did not appear to me that there was anywhere near the economic disparity there that we have in the U.S. Yet I was surprised to see that they did not appear as one of the 15 countries above us in the chart. So I check inside the report and found that their child poverty rate is in the low 20's while ours was in the low 30's. So obviously they belong ahead of us. I wonder how many more there are?
That is not wht I saw on the first chart, were there more? What interested me was the direction that was being taken and I was happy to see that many countries were reducing the rate. The poor Greeks, guess they can thank Angela for that.
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