Leftist Artifacts :
I'm Spanish-American, so I get to explain the reality of this to both sides. For example, Americans frequently call out Spain's poverty rate being 24% compared to 16% in the US until I explain that Spain's is based on cost of living and the US is arbitrary. In Spain, if you can't afford adequate housing, food, clothing, and recreation, you are considered to be in poverty. In the US, it's an arbitrary number, about $15,960 per year or $1330 per month for an individual. The average monthly grocery costs for one person in the us is $438, rent for a one bedroom apartments is $1,664, average cost of health insurance is $120 for employer-sponsored and $777 for self-purchased, and transportation is $746 per month. An American at the poverty line cant afford a one bedroom apartment. When the Spanish say "but out poverty rate is so much higher" and I explain it takes 32 hours of minimum-wage work per week to escape poverty in Spain compared to 90 hours in the US, their jaws hit the floor.
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