What is the poverty level($) in the U.S. and in Canada?
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$25,000 year US dont know about Canada.
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in canada..or at least in ontario...low income housing is way different than america's.  once you get into low income housing in ontario...after five or ten years(can't really remember) and if you keep the place up(not nasty, no one going to jail) they give you the house.  there are no slums, no real ghettos, no real violence.  perhaps if americans did this the crime rate may go down.\n\n\nobviously in the inner city, like say in Toronto, there are places you don't want to be at night.  but the overall crime rate is much less than it is anywhere in the states.
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none, money from canada is monopoly money!
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Sorry, I couldn't find any stats for 2005, but as of 2004 the number of Americans under the poverty line was around 37 million.
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Canada....our crime rate is lower...health care is better...(proven by 2005 Harvard (American) study), we are not hated around the world, we have a better social safety net.  I love Canada.  I don't hate our friends in the states....they are relatively the same...just some poor political angles.
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Canada. Free healthcare, free education, terrorists aren't as pissed off at us than the US....
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Statistics Canada is the federal government's statistics department.  Good luck.
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It is relative, but in the United States 'poor' typically refers to any individual whose financial situation is insufficient to maintain a 'world class' standard of living for an ongoing period of time.  It also points to anyone unable to afford access to the level of technology, health care and education which is considered obtainable by the work force.  'Poor' is relative to a society's overall level of technological and economic sophistication.
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Poverty and inequality
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America is as poor as any other developing country.
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If the country was being run like it should be, we shouldn't have anyone here in the US living in poverty.  \n\nSadly even the minimum wage is a "poverty wage".  You can work 40 hours a week and work all 52 weeks a year, and you would still be considered living in "poverty".\n\nSo to answer your question:  Yes, the government is wasting our tax dollars and making impractical decisions.\n\nIf they were running the country properly, we wouldn't have to have a need for welfare, or be hated by more people than ever from other countries (war issue).
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There are poor people everywhere, regardless of nationality.  In West Germany, 3.7% of the population receives welfare, and in East Germany, 2.7% does.  Compare this to the USA where (as of the last count in 2000) was only 2.4%.  Also, according to the BBC, since the recent economic recession in Japan, poverty has risen considerably.  The unemployment rate in Japan was at 4.3% as of 2005, but the actual poverty rate was unavailable on every site I checked.
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I think it's about $840 or $860 in Alberta on AISH.  Assured income for the Severely Handicapped. We don't have provincial sales tax.
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The poorest nations :\n \nTokelau  $ 1,500,000  1993 est.  \nNiue  $ 7,600,000  2000 est. \nTuvalu  $ 12,200,000  2000 est \n Saint Helena  $ 18,000,000  1998 est \nMontserrat  $ 29,000,000  2002 est. \nSaint Pierre and Miquelon  $ 48,300,000  2003 est.  \n\nThe porresrt people GDP/C (poorest is down) (this is average GDP/person)\n\nBurundi  $ 600  2005 est.   \nComoros  $ 600  2005 est.  \n Somalia  $ 600  2005 est.  \n Malawi  $ 600  2005 est.  \nGaza Strip  $ 600  2003 est.  \n East Timor  $ 400  2004 est.
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http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/05poverty.shtml\n\nThere you go. You should print it out.\n\nGood luck!
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$10.00 or less per hour is Min wage anything below that is poverty level, the problem is our goverment hasn't wokeup to face the reason why ? it takes two people living together just to make it in this country, AMEN TO THAT !
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You must meet 125% of the Poverty Guideline for the size of your household.  So if you live on your own, you would need to earn no less than $12,250.00.\n\nThe 2006 Poverty Guideline can be found here: http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/info/info_1327.html