Indoor plumbing - check
Electricity - check
Air conditioning - check
Heating - check
Refrigerator - check
Cable TV - (sometimes) check
Cell phone - (often)check
Food stamps and free food - (often) check
Welfare and tax credits/subsidies - (often) check
Family/relatives support - (sometimes) check
Private charity assistance, including churches - (often) check
Other - check
Now go to foreign countries and visit with their poor and tell me the USA has a problem. Give me a break. Their are very few chronically poor people in this country, especially innocent chronically poor (not lazy, not drug addicts, not alcoholics, etc.)
Presumably, you do so in order to either put a system you believe in up on a pedastel, or to 'justify' looking the other way while the actual poor suffer.