Millions of Americans as destitute as the world’s poorest? Don’t believe it.
“Last week, Angus Deaton, a Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist, published an opinion piece in the New York Times in which he claimed that millions of Americans — specifically, 3.2 million to 5.4 million, depending on the poverty line used — ‘are as destitute as the world’s poorest people.’ This is simply wrong.”