Being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries. “We have so many resources. Our tolerance for poverty is very high, much higher than it is in other parts of the developed world. I don’t know if it’s a belief, a cliché, or a myth. You see a homeless person in Los Angeles; an #American says, ‘What did that person do?’ You see a homeless person in France; a French person says, ‘What did the state do? How did the state fail them?’”
The AtlanticThe War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won.The sociologist Matthew Desmond believes that being poor is different in the U.S. than in other rich countries.