{"id":3719,"date":"2025-11-26T19:48:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:48:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:48:27","slug":"china-has-brought-millions-out-of-poverty-the-us-has-not-by-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/11\/26\/china-has-brought-millions-out-of-poverty-the-us-has-not-by-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not \u2013 by choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This analysis contrasts China&#8217;s success in eliminating extreme poverty with the persistent and growing income inequality in the United States. While China managed to reduce the number of people living on less than $3 a day from 83% of its population to zero by 2019, over 4 million Americans still subsist on this amount. The author contends that this profound disparity is not an inevitable market outcome but a result of decades of policy choices that consistently prioritized market forces over wealth redistribution. As a result, the income share of the poorest 10th of the U.S. population is now comparable to that of poor people in countries like Bolivia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nov 23, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/23\/china-us-poverty-income-inequality\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This analysis contrasts China&#8217;s success in eliminating extreme poverty with the persistent and growing income inequality in the United States. While China managed to reduce the number of people living on less than $3 a day from 83% of its population to zero by 2019, over 4 million Americans still subsist on this amount. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":3721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-socio-economic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}