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So this suggests that the high rate of child poverty in the US (relative to other OECD nations) is because the welfare benefits are not as generous

No, poverty level for one person in the US now is $11,490. Some OECD countries do not have such average GDP per capita! Of course American welfare benefits are more generous than in many of OECD countries and higher than OECD average.

See http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=4549

This is public social expenditures, welfare programs are the part of it.

Choose in the "Unit" window "per head, in US dollars".

Good luck!

All you've shown here is that you don't understand how to read research papers, nor how research itself works.

Yes, I am an obscurantist. However I continue to believe that report that intentionally excludes the USA from the analysis of poverty and specifically says that causes of American poverty differs from causes of poverty in other countries, will not be a helpful source to learn about causes of poverty in the US. Even if you have read it from cover to cover.

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No, poverty level for one person in the US now is $11,490. Some OECD countries do not have such average GDP per capita!

Relative poverty, look it up.

However I continue to believe that report that intentionally excludes the USA from the analysis of poverty and specifically says that causes of American poverty differs from causes of poverty in other countries, will not be a helpful source to learn about causes of poverty in the US.

It's like you didn't even read my response where I said that the reason it excluded US data was because it was filling a gap in the research and their research confirms the US data. The references to the US report are in the one I posted if you so desperately want to check.


Yes, I am an obscurantist.

If facts don't matter then there is no point continuing this conversation. You just want to push your morality on other people. I prefer to live in the real world.