1/6 of the population living in poverty

The story doesn't tell us how the calculations are made. The devil is in the unknown details.

 

>Matt 6:25,26, 30 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

>Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

>Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you, O ye of little faith?

Advertising hype. <G> Translation: don't worry while you are starving to death because it is God's will for your life.

 

Most Americans (including the "Occupy" people) know nothing of poverty.

Yet we really are poor, because most of us only think of ourselves instead of others.