Quote from: pooya87 on Today at 03:45:55 AM

Actually 1st world countries are among those with the most number of people in absolute poverty, specially these days in Europe that the economy is falling apart. For example I was reading the Guardian a couple of weeks ago where it stated that in the first 4 months of this year more than a million British families became homeless and have been sleeping on the streets.

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From a person like you I would expect that if he says such an outrageous thing, he should at least back it up with data.

No. It is false. There are not a million families who have become homeless in the UK recently. If we multiply by the family size of 2.4, that would give us more than 2.4 million people who have gone to sleep on the streets in the UK, which, apart from being false is an exaggeration that anyone who knows the UK at least minimally knows is false at first sight.

But if we google what we find is this:

Homelessness set to soar in England amid cost of living crisis

More than 66,000 more people will be homeless by 2024

Which is a simple prediction, from a newspaper whose ideology is interested in emphasizing these things, and far from at least 2.4 million people (1 million families per 2.4 people).

70,000 households in UK made homeless during pandemic

But for those of you who do not know much about the UK, I would like to inform you that there is a thing called benefits, which includes housing benefits:

Housing Benefit

So, the poor in the UK and in first world countries where there are benefits for low income levels, live much better than the poor in the third world.