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[xyzelement]

// also, as a middle class earner i much prefer my lower class neighbors having a good social safety net and other guarantees because i really don't want my neighbors kids go hungry.

In the US kids don't go hungry. The truly poor have food stamps and other aid so I don't get this comparison.

[ryanwaggoner → xyzelement]

The USDA classifies nine million American kids as “food insecure”, some of them quite desperately so.

https://apnews.com/article/free-school-lunch-child-hunger-7d...

It may not be any better for European kids, but it’s inaccurate to say that US kids don’t go hungry.

[RestlessMind → ryanwaggoner]

US death rate from malnutrition is 0.9/100K compared to France's 2.1/100. Other European countries are <1.0 while subsaharan Africa or Centra/South America is generally >3. Ref: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-from-malnutrit...