By Giulia Carbonaro, Photo: from article, Newsweek, June 19, 2023
The land of the free is suffering from a "self-inflicted" injustice when it comes to poverty, experts say, as the rich are getting richer while thousands living without sufficient means die every year in the United States, as a recent study shows. The issue, according to an exclusive poll conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek, worries a majority of Americans.
Research by the University of California, Riverside (UCR) published earlier this year in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the death of 183,000 Americans aged 15 years old and above in 2019—a year before the explosion of the pandemic were to make mortality rates in the country much, much worse—could be attributed to poverty, defined as those with incomes lower than 50 percent of the U.S. median.
In 2019, the median household income was $69,560. In the same year, about 34 million Americans—10.5 percent of the country's population—were estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to be living in poverty.
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