QQ
31st January 2012 |
Nice site. |
Matt
25th October 2011 |
Roll Tide |
AndyP
13th September 2011 |
Thia is a great site and info on statistics for prosperity and poverty. It is surprising that USA poverty level of about 12%??? It is shameful that the poverty level dropped down between 1990 and 2000 to lowest level in USA and it rose back up between 2000 and 2008. It shows that politicians did not correct the situation or at least maintain the prosperity. People had gone hungry and poorer from year 2000 and on.
Interesting thing is, we call our nation the "RICHEST" "POWERFUL" and STRONGEST" in the world. But, at what means?. at what measure? USA poverty level is much higher than "China" and poor countries.
Isn't it's time put the politics out and care for poor people than look after rich, richer, or richest. They don't need to be spoon fed. They can be left alone with their enough money lasting them for next few generations.
We are "For the People" and on nation, Isn't that right???
Best Regards,
AndyP |
Jim
10th July 2011 |
Great website! |
Swedishboi
14th March 2011 |
You should add an item category of what imports each country got. |
mr.zero
29th November 2010 |
im a student and i have to use this site for information. |
Michelle
20th September 2010 |
AWESOME WEBSITE! WOOOOOOH |
shilla
27th April 2010 |
what is the balance of payment in united states in 2010 and how is ti affecting the economy ? |
arnitha
20th April 2010 |
what determines poverty line I know it varies by household size but what is taken into consideration. |
arnitha
20th April 2010 |
what determines poverty line? |
jon
31st January 2010 |
wheres the factors? |
Gabi Mor
9th May 2009 |
Hi
Please let me know the following figures for 2008
GDP
Total Health related expenses
Gross national Income.
morhealth@nyc.rr.com
Thanks a lot |
nicholas miller
4th May 2009 |
your site is very usefull for the students in high school. |
lisaw (wa)
5th December 2008 |
Poverty in America's children is so REAL. They don't eat, sometimes no meals in a day. They don't get to school as often. They get abused, or neglected, or both.
I know many. I was an apartment manager in a poor area.
There were whites, blacks, and mexican-americans.
Their parents cannot cope. Period. Not just money, but emotional and psychological issues from being poor abused and neglected when they were children.
It's a vioious cycle. Imagine being born into it, then tell me there's no poverty in America. It's real people. |
James Oswald
8th October 2008 |
You want to know what is wrong. The "poorer" familys as you mention which "breed like rats" are blacks, mexicans and other people of non-European ancestory. These people deplete any/all forms of social assistance which is paid by the US TAXPAYERS-not the US government. This is a clearly provable fact. These groups contribute to the growing crime wave that the US is so well known for and contribute positively to nothing else. The land of milk and honey has become nothing more than a cespool. |
loltax (China)
8th June 2008 |
Just so you guys know, the US has the lowest child poverty in the world. No idea where they got the stat from. |
John (Arizona, United States)
17th December 2007 |
The answer to this excellent question has to do with the fact that poverty statistics are relative to the relative standard of living of each country so it is really improper to compare the "child poverty" statistics of one country with another. |
Kevin (US)
5th November 2007 |
Do you even know how it is measured, its an absolute threshold. Why don't you make a budget for a family of 4 now compare to the poverty threshold, could you live on 20,650 a year. |
Gustavo Rocha da Silva (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
27th August 2007 |
The USA are the richest country in the world and, most surprising, its Foreign Debt is the biggest of all nations.
Would you please tell me to whom the USA owe such an amount of money?
Thank you very much.
Yours truly,
Gustavo Rocha da Silva
gustavoarsilva@yahoo.com.br |
Matt (Madison, WI)
14th May 2007 |
BenjBenj-
I would hardly call the Nordic nations old stodgy Europe (which would include old powers of Spain, Britain, France, Italy, possibly Germany as they have fallen off). Scandinavian countries for long have some of the best standards of living, educational systems, life expectancies, and health care programs as they have subscribed to a more socialist type system... WHILE, and most importantly they have continually remained a major technology power... if the US didn't have such restrictions on many quickly growing technical devices or could even use them as tower/freq. transmissions are not free for all, allowing any provider use... look into the technology that we Americans aren't aware of yet, that is all over the world coming out of Norther Europe.
I can't speak to Australia though... more relaxed, laid back lifestyles? |
jasmine (detroit MI 48219)
7th May 2007 |
I wonder and want to know as to why theres a saying that the united states economy is low but then again its not. which one is it. then if what is being said is true how can it be when the U.S is such a powerful country thats supposed to have so much money or that it seems that way because we are always coming to someone aids or supporting some cause. can someone explain this to me.
Jasmine P.S. i'm a highschool student just wanting to know for a research paper thanks~! |
Triveon Crawford (Compton California)
18th October 2006 |
I greatly feel that the word poverty means not able to afford your basic needs like HBO and fried chicken. I think you will all agree... Im gettin made at all them white people takin my HBO. I mean what would i do without my chicken? How would you guys feel if i went into your television and get rid of your favorite white person show (full house). I think you would be pretty mad. So next time you crazy crackers try to take away my wonderful HBO think to your weird self... What would i do without full house?
Peace out Compton! |
erol
7th December 2005 |
to Ikariotis- Aah jealousy of America. Its common because of how governments around the world want to paint the US as evil but deep down everybody wants to live here. We are kind, rational,devoted, helpful folk who are dedicated to living a life of hard work and fun. Sue us. |
medina
4th December 2005 |
do you have a map that shows a map of turkey and than shows a map of were it was before the map change. |
Michael
18th November 2005 |
In response to Ikariotis - how can you call upon God to punish us and make us suffer painfully, and then call us blood thirsty monsters? I'm not sure what comment you are referring to, but right now vast majority of Americans don't agree with the Iraq War, don't like Bush, don't like the way the country is headed, and are peaceful people. Americans are dying in Iraq when we could walk away selfishly after our mistake and let the country fall apart, but we are choosing to stay and *try* to help.
I hope you will stop spouting curses and anger, and start opening your mind. |
barbie
15th November 2005 |
this page was o.k i think you need to maybe make a bar graph of the different countries in 1990's and up. But so far nice page! |
Jason
19th September 2005 |
Lack of affordable health insurance won't ruin our country, keeping it isolated from a free market model will.
As people become more aware of the real costs of health insurance, they will adjust their behavior accordingly. I'd also like to see some accountability for health, but I don't know how that'll work out. But a free market model will balance efficiency with economic priority.
Of course, subsidizing drug costs of other countries that have price controls doesn't help.. we seem to have this silly notion that, if the drug exists, we are entitled to it. Is it really better that the drugs and services don't exist at all? |
Dej
17th September 2005 |
Tony: This is the same American ingenuity that handled the Hurricane Katrina efforts after emergency aid programs were cut? |
Keith
1st August 2005 |
Above and beyond all else concerning the question of child poverty in America is the question of how you define child poverty. Note that this is measured by how many children live in households earning below 50% of the average household income. Using this standard, the only people who have enough money to raise children are grandparents, as older generations tend to be more wealthy than younger.
Another thing is that as long as you have an economy that is stratified, you will have "child poverty." You could live in a country where your family makes one million dollars a day, but if the average household income is two million dollars a day, you live in poverty.
This method of measurement says nothing about childhood poverty, but is just another stratedgy the left uses to condemn societies that choose to be economically stratified. |
laurie
31st July 2005 |
Tony's comment about unshackling the free market will NOT help children below the poverty line...
It will only help the rich to get richer, and the poor will fall even further through the cracks.
Yeah, the economy will rock-n-roll for the top 5% earners, but not for anyone else. Reagan's 'trickle-down economics' was proven to be a pipe dream. Nothing trickles down to the bottom 20% |
Stephanie
27th July 2005 |
Tony:
Europe is WAY more advanced than the U.S., so for you to say that, "the incessant whining of statist liberals...who'd like to see us become more like...Europe" is a bad thing, you're showing your ignorance. If it weren't for these Europeans, the U.S. wouldn't exist...at least not as it is today. While your enthusiasm for the U.S. is commendable, you simply sound like another dumb, redneck conservative...one of the idiots that is breeding. It's people like you who are sending this country into the intellectual downward spiral that it is. |
Bil
20th July 2005 |
Where can I find data of foreing investment in the USA? How much capital is getting in the US economy from abroad? Once I heard that 1.5 bil dollar is invested into the US economy daily from abroad. Is that true? |
Bil
20th July 2005 |
Where can I find data of foreing investment in the USA? How much capital is getting in the US economy from abroad? Once I heard that 1.5 bil dollar is invested into the US economy from abroad. Is that true? |
benjbenj
19th July 2005 |
Poor Tony. The 'human development index' shows that life in many countries that are part of that 'stodgy Old Europe' is not that bad at all:
1. Norway 0.942 [= stodgy Old Europe]
2. Sweden 0.941 [= stodgy Old Europe]
3. Canada 0.940
4. Belgium 0.939 [= stodgy Old Europe]
5. Australia 0.939
6. United States 0.939 [= soars like an eagle, but failed to reach the top]
7. Iceland 0.936 [= stodgy Old Europe]
8. Netherlands 0.935 [= stodgy Old Europe]
9. Japan 0.933
10. Finland 0.930 [= stodgy Old Europe]
Strange, that 'youthful country in the family of nations' ranks seventh. |
Patrick
18th July 2005 |
You need to look at what "poverty" means for each country. For many in the US, "poverty" means cannot aford all of the HBO channels and cannot afford a $150 pair of new Nikes. "Poverty" omits support systems such as foodstamps, subsidized housing, etc.
"Poverty" in the US is not the same thing as "poverty" in, let's say, Brazil. |
Tony
20th June 2005 |
i cant find united states POPULATION! i am spanishe |
tom
9th June 2005 |
The only thing that's ever going to ruin our country is the lack affordable health insurance. It causes bankruptcy and financial hardship for citizens, also hurts businesses. These are minor problems in the whole, but nonetheless are a danger to any nation that claims to have the best treated people in medicine around the world. |
NottaTony
7th June 2005 |
I'd just like to ask tony here... would be speaking the same way if you lived in poverty? Do you understand what it is like? I highly doubt that you do. Keep your mouth shut about Europe. At least they're trying to give people chances in life - they're caring for their people and not shunning them as your country does. Perhaps the USA is the best place for you then... and all the others like you. |
Raymond
12th May 2005 |
I say, good job United States.
We are the best country ever.
Everyone else is jealous. |
Tony
9th February 2005 |
I'm delighted and proud to see the United States--such a youthful country in the family of nations, an untamed wilderness barely two centuries ago--today so abundantly blessed by God with the material rewards of her labor and productivity.
I can only imagine how our economy would roar with success if not for the incessant whining of statist liberals and idiotic "social welfare" advocates who'd like to see us become more like socialist, stodgy Old Europe.
I say, unshackle the free market...cut more taxes, cut more useless government programs...then sit back and watch this economy rock'n'roll with the ingenuity of American know-how and entrepreneurship.
Nothing soars like an Eagle, Baby!!! |
Randall
25th January 2005 |
The budget expenditures aren't defined. I had to figure out from elsewhere that it is only federal. It's hard to compare with other countries (I'm looking form th point of view in U.S.) & to even see the whole for each country isn't included. Maybe the staet & local budgets are listed in another section I haven't come across. |
Chris
25th January 2005 |
Actually, you can read the whole report on the UNICEF website to get a really good understanding.
The UNICEF study found that there were four main factors: single-parent households, unemployed households, low wages and low social spending. No one factor determined the rate, but a mixture of the factors did.
For example, the Northern European countries with the lowest childhood poverty rates, have very high social spending. Even though they have lots of single families, the governments have commited to spending money to care for them: with 42 weeks of paid maternity leave, universal daycare, etc.
The US scores low on all of these counts: it has lots of single parents, lots of low paying jobs, somewhat high unemployment and very low social spending. Some of this is due to the 1996 Welfare reform: millions of poor people moved off welfare and into low-paying jobs with few benefits. So unemployment is low, but so are wages and social service spending.
The study says that there are a number of concrete things that can be done to improve these rates, as exemplified by the Northern European countries. Reducing the number of single parent families and unemployment is kind of hard, but raising wages for the poor and committing money to supporting working families and single mothers (universal day care, health care, job training, etc) can reduce these numbers.
UNICEF estimated that it could be completely eliminated with a .0066 of GNP increase in social spending, or about $70 billion/year. A lot of money, but not impossible or unbreakable poverty cycle. |
Michael DeLorenzo
13th January 2005 |
There are numerous reasons for the fact that America has the second highest % of children in poverty:
1. We are not being compared to every country in the world...only those that release childhood poverty statistics. If you included countries like China, Brazil, India, Zimbabwe, we would not be the 2nd highest anymore.
2. We have an increadibly high teenage birth rate, fueled by a sexual sub-culture of some teens. Had these teens been more responsible and waited, then they could have been much more financially secure, and maybe completed college.
3. Clinton and the Republican congress dismantled the welfare state in the 1990s. It has been so successful in making people go out and get jobs, that unfortunately some people are left in poverty. However, we only have 1-2% of our population that is chronically unemployed (living off the system as welfare bums), as opposed to Europe, which has about twice that amount. This of course is a tremendous burden on European economies, and they are beginning to think that they should copy the US to fix their problem.
Unfortunately, poverty is a cyclical problem. Across generations, The bottom 20% of society tend to stay in poverty, while the other 80% tend to stay out of poverty. These children never learn to get out of poverty (its all they know), and unfortunately the cycle continues with their children. |
Ronnell Davis
9th January 2005 |
The United States is the richest country but we still have the second highest percentage of children in poverty. Please explain the reasons for this pathetic stat please. |
ying
6th December 2004 |
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2nd December 2004 |
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2nd December 2004 |
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29th November 2004 |
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