Most of our “poor” are obese. This makes me pretty suspicious of their maudlin claims.
I spent a very short time in India about 45 years ago as a kid...my dad walked us around New Delhi most of the night because we didn’t have a hotel room (to save money, we were coming home from an overseas posting).
I had lived in the Philippines and seen some degree of poverty, but nothing even remotely like what I saw that night.
And even back then, there was not that level of poverty ANYWHERE in this country.
As Americans, most of us have no idea what real poverty is. That is good, but it makes dishonest people (like liberals) attempt to drum up poverty any way they can...and they do.