Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Poorest in US Consume More Than Most in Europe

Via Billy

A store accepting food stamps. ("We Accept Food Stamps" by Paul Sableman/Flickr [CC BY 2.0 (ept.ms/2haHp2Y)])

Americans in the bottom 20 percent of income-earners buy more consumer goods and services than the national averages for people living in most of the wealthiest nations of the world, including those in Europe.

That’s the central conclusion of an analysis published Aug. 26 by Just Facts, a New Jersey-based independent nonprofit research institute that describes itself as “dedicated to publishing rigorously documented facts about public policy issues.”

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