That's a measurement to access, affordability and safety... NOT a measurement on how few people live in poverty in the US. The US has more food production, more infrastructure, more people working in those fields. Color me surprised?
Our poor have better quality of life overall, affordable healthcare, money to live on they can spend as they please rather than going into stores and feeling ashamed via food stamps or such. On top of that, measures put in place to ensure people do not go hungry (food banks, charities, authorities) as well as emergency aids. Speaking from experience here coming from a poor household with a mentally ill parent.
Sweden's poverty rate 2018: 1% in/at risk of serious material poverty where one's struggling to cope with unforeseen expenses, can't support oneself. This is across the entire population.
If you narrow it down to count only the unemployed, the poverty is still a whopping low 8%. And yes, they have the entire safety net of Sweden's Socialism to fall back on.
https://qz.com/879092/the-us-doesnt-...loped-country/
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/...ut-everything/
I just love how it's been 4 years since that fateful year of 2015, and yet things still tick as usual here in our oh-so dangerous (to the raging capitalists and alt-right) Socialist Capitalism known as that Sweden.
Biggest news last summer/autumn: Forest fires, and our favorite chocolate milk powder having production issues and thus stores running out. We then went from September to now, this week, without a government. Made no real difference, really, other than getting a severe sense of deja vu whenever watching the news.