Living on less than half of the federal poverty level is considered “deep poverty.” That describes 53% of impoverished Chicagoans.

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    1 year ago

    Does anyone else feel like this instance gets a disproportionate amount of news focused on Chicago?

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    This is about $7,000usd/year. Now look at Morocco and other such countries in here :

    List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita

    What I mean here is : when you have a need you are the best person to find a solution.

    Of course, this applies only in places where there is no war and Chicago is under some kind of a war.

    Gangs in Chicago - Wikipedia
    Chicago is considered the most gang-occupied city in the United States, with 150,000 gang-affiliated denizens, (…)

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      Not sure why you even went to the effort to link this because it’s almost completely irrelevant. The cost of living in Chicago and Morocco are not even remotely the same so trying to make the point that people elsewhere in the world can survive off that much so people on Chicago should is nonsense. That’s assuming we’d even consider people in Morocco living on that much as having a decent quality of life.

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        Exactly, the cost of living is different …and there are reasons for that. it’s so obvious to me and yet you people don’t see it. Don’t bother you don’t have the right mindset.

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          Enlighten us because nothing in your comment bothered to go into any of the reasons so why even make it if you then don’t want to follow up.