It all depends:
Not to say that there is neither poverty in America or people in truly desperate straights, but let's have some perspective.
The house had no electricity but did have running water. For rural Colombia, this would qualify as upper middle class...From Killing Pablo. It's another reminder that the term "poor" is relative and the limited usefulness of evaluating people's welfare by using such measures. I would bet your average poor person in the U.S. today -- complete with cable TV, microwave, AC, car, cell phone and other trappings of modern life -- is better off than your average middle class person in the 1940s. We sometimes forget how rich we really are.
Not to say that there is neither poverty in America or people in truly desperate straights, but let's have some perspective.
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