I’m going to bet that poverty in the UK = low income in the US, and poverty in the US = something that the UK doesn’t let happen to people… as in letting people starve or die of treatable illness if they can’t afford to pay for care.
Are there 1.5 million homeless children in the UK? Are there 15 million kids without enough food in the UK? That’s the numbers in the US.
Are there homeless people wandering the streets in the UK? Sleeping under door stoops and under bridges? Are lots of those homeless people under 18? That’s what its like in the US.
Most the kids from orphanages and foster homes in the US end up in prison, homeless, or dead within one year of aging out of the system at age 18. In the US. I don’t know what happens in the UK.
We turned out all our mentally ill in the 70s from state run institutions, and now just let them wander around homeless and hungry too. That’s the US. I’ve got no idea what they do in the UK.
