Want an international comparison? The average "poor American" has more living space than the average Swede or German. You can read even more of those facts in their report, “Understanding Poverty in the United States.” - See more at: http://askheritage.org/what-does-it-really-mean-to-be-poor-in-america/#sthash.2PWd02vx.dpuf
The following are facts about persons defined as “poor” by the Census Bureau: 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning Nearly three-fourths have a car or truck, and 31 percent have two or more cars or trucks Nearly two-thirds have cable or satellite television Two-thirds have at least one DVD player and 70 percent have a VCR Half have a personal computer, and one in seven have two or more computers More than half of poor families with children have a video game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation 43 percent have Internet access One-third have a wide-screen plasma or LCD television One-fourth have a digital video recorder system, such as a TiVo
As for hunger and homelessness, Rector and Sheffield point to 2009 statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture showing that 96 percent of poor parents stated that their children were never hungry at any time during the year because they could not afford food, 83 percent of poor families reported having enough food to eat, and over the course of a year, only 4 percent of poor persons become temporarily homeless, with 42 percent of poor households actually owning their own homes. Want an international comparison? The average "poor American" has more living space tha
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