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DJ Calvert told BBC News NI: "I've been let down - and I'm not the only one."

It was proof that Northern Ireland's health and social care system had "crashed", said the 49-year-old.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not everywhere...

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world's total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China%E2%80%99s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&locations=CN&start=2008

By the end of 2020, extreme poverty, defined as living on under a threshold of around $2 per day, had been eliminated in China. According to the World Bank, the Chinese government had spent $700 billion on poverty alleviation since 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/world/asia/china-poverty-xi-jinping.html

https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/lifting-800-million-people-out-of-poverty-new-report-looks-at-lessons-from-china-s-experience

[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why the Chinese people are very supportive of their government. You would be too in this situation.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly, no great mystery as to why Chinese government enjoys overwhelming public support.

[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

How many times are people going to face this claim?

China's pretty much popped their real estate bubble already, yet consumer spending is already recovering.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

this time for sure 😂

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously. How much do you get paid for shilling China so hard? And where do I sign up?

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"why are we talking about the communist party of china under an article about how the bourgeoisie continues to accumulate wealth to the detriment of the proletariat?"

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

This thread is about a dude in Ireland. It has nothing to do with China.

Say what you want about the west, but China isn’t what the world should be either.