China’s poverty victory and America’s poverty shame

China eliminated extreme poverty while America’s tripled—but before we declare a winner, consider this: the World Bank recently raised its poverty threshold from $2.15 to $3 per day, instantly adding 125 million people to global poverty counts with the stroke of a pen. This technical adjustment exposes a fundamental problem with how we measure human
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