1.0 link 136751 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivian-norris-de-montaigu/poverty-in-america-the-pr_b_136751.html The first time I visited Mexico City, I was twenty years old and we drove into town via hillsides of cardboard houses, slums and trash dumps with people scouring through them for whatever they could find. My American companion seemed shocked by the poverty. The poverty did not shock me at all. I asked, "Haven't you ever been to North Louisiana?" Or rural North Carolina, a Native American reservation in many US states (pre-casinos), downtown LA? Poverty in the developing...

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