Ну, как бы бедные в Америке не совсем то, что вы представляете.
У 42% есть даже собственные дома.
During the year 4% of the poor became temporarily homeless. Forty percent live in apartments, less than 10% in mobile homes or trailers and about 50% live in standard one-family homes. In fact, 42% own their own home.
The vast majority are in good repair, with more living space per person than the average non-poor person in Britain, France or Sweden.
Ninety-six percent of poor parents say their children were never hungry during the year due to an inability to afford food.
Eighty percent of poor households have air conditioning and 92% have a microwave.
One-third of poor households have a wide-screen plasma or LCD TV, 70% have a VCR and two-thirds have satellite/cable TV, the same proportion as own at least one DVD player.
Half of the povery households have a personal computer and one-in-seven have two or more.
And half of those with children have a video game system like Xbox.
Almost 75% have a car or truck and nearly a third have two.
Наглядный пример - Нью-Йоркский нищий с табличкой "Homeless", которому полицейский подарил ботинки.
У него есть квартира и 30 пар обуви.
Здесь он пересчитывает толстую пачку денег, которую ему дали за день. Где-то $1,000.
Здесь он на "работе".