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1/5 часть детей в Америке живёт в условиях бедности - одна из цитат фильма.
www.vz.ru/news/2013/4/18/629264.html
18 апр. 2013 г. - Официальный уровень бедности в США в нынешнем году составляет 11,5 тыс. долларов на одного человека или 23,5 тыс. долларов на семью...Прожиточный минимум в РФ в 1 кв 2013г 7065р на чел/мес,= ок
2650 дол на чел в год.
http://ppt.ru/info/index.php?id=18ABC, безусловно, всё познаётся в сравнении, а в реальности, выглядит следующим образом:
Цитата:
Larry, 52, used to manage a large customer service department. But two years ago he lost his job and house. Today he lives in a motel room with his wife and two children and scrapes by on $820 dollars a month, welcoming tourists to Disney World. After he has paid the motel fees, he's left with just $70 a week for food and other necessities.
Terry used to be a sales manager and enjoyed a good life until he was made redundant. He ended up roaming from motel to motel in Florida in his car and eventually was judged 'economically incapable' of raising his six children. The three eldest were placed in foster care.
There are currently 1,800 children growing up in the motels around Disney World. They move from school to school as their parents are forced to find cheaper accommodation.
Amber and Daniel are married but are forced to live on different sides of the United States. Why? It's the only way they can honestly make enough money to stop themselves and their children going hungry.
Three unique stories, but all have one thing in common: they are America's new poor, who struggle for work but can barely survive.
( анонс фильма и далее дискуссия -
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=253202Ну так ведь об
"America's new poor" говорят сейчас как о новым массовым феномене!
Нижеследующие статьи на эту тему - в Гардиан и Вашингтон Пост( хотя не знаю

, по версии Виталия - они там видимо точно всякого БТ насмотрелись и
всякую бредятину пишут

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America's new poor: the end of the middle-class dream
Цитата:
Yet America's middle class is disappearing. A lifestyle sustained for 30 years by rising debt is dissolving as the credit dries up. And the question beyond the crisis is: can it ever come back?
Figures released last month by the US Census Bureau show it will be hard. Middle incomes are lower, in real terms, than in 1999. The median income, stagnate for a decade, fell by 4.2% once the crisis hit. Since December 2007 more than six million Americans have been pushed below the official poverty line.
Обзор книги" Кто украл американскую мечту" лауреата Пулитцеровской премии Hedrick Smith в Вашингтон Пост:
“Who Stole the American Dream?” by Hedrick Smith
Цитата:
Saving the middle class has become a battle cry in the 2012 presidential campaign — and it’s no wonder. According to a recent Pew Research Center study, the percentage of Americans considered middle class has dwindled to 51 percent from 61 percent in 1971. But the Pew report does not explain the political and economic forces behind this decline. That’s a task Hedrick Smith sets for himself in his new book, “Who Stole the American Dream?”
Кстати, то на что выше указал usun

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Цитата:
в США слишком высокое расслоение и слишком много нищих, даже процентно. - See more at:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=890&start=440#sthash.re3HK181.dpufВ самой статье:
Цитата:
“Who Stole the American Dream?” provides a grim panorama of the real-world consequences of these power shifts: concentration of financial assets and higher incomes in fewer hands; race-to-the-bottom wage and sales dynamics (epitomized by the rise of Wal-Mart) that pit American producers against Asian sweatshop factories and result in massive sales of imported, cheap merchandise that, in turn, eviscerates small, local retailers; efforts by America’s highly admired high-tech moguls (from Steve Jobs to Bill Gates) to transfer overseas much of our knowledge-based economy;the evolution of a Washington-Wall Street “symbiosis” that dominates White House and congressional policymaking and thrives on political gridlock.
Smith’s saga of economic and political polarization is so downbeat and devastating that there seems little hope for his modest blueprint for change: a 10-step “Domestic Marshall Plan” based on new public-private commitments to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, foster high-tech growth and a manufacturing renaissance, enact a reformed tax code favoring domestic job creation, etc.
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