I think it is fair to say that the experience of poverty in the USA is insufficiently considered in the analysis, but its worth noting that the square-footage advantage in the USA runs through almost all of the income ladder and like, 60+% of Americans own their own home.
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Which, to be clear, you ought to do. I get really frustrated seeing 'poverty rates' compared across countries that have substantially different definitions of what constitutes poverty (e.g. different poverty lines).
Anyway, my own sense, fwiw, is that the United States does fairly well, on average, by both the rich (of course) and the bulk of the middle class, which together represent a majority, but not all of American society, but it does somewhat badly by the rest of folks.
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I suppose the real question here is often 'is the US some sort of monstrous outlier in this regard' and I think the answer is 'no.' If you cf. the USA to much smaller, rich countries, we look bad b/c Denmark's poor workers live in Hungary, whereas the USA's live in West Virginia.
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If you compare to, say, the entire EU (capturing lower income member states), the USA looks a lot better. But that doesn't mean the USA can't do better by its poorer citizens or that it shouldn't. Merely that it isn't some gross, monstrous outlier.
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The middle class is being pretty heavily squeezed out of being middle class
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Yes, though by some measures, a lot of those people are being squeezed *up* rather than down, e.g. this RAND study which finds that while the middle class shrunk by 2.7%, most of those folks (1.9%) moved up, not down:https://www.rand.org/blog/2021/05/most-americans-consider-themselves-middle-class-but.html …
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