Here is a query if there is extreme poverty in the US

This is the upcoming report on this subject:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/suffer-extreme-poverty-171215123106413.html

Let us say there is a very strong smell of it.

If it is proved to be so, the US taxpayer will have very searching questions to ask there gerontocratic congress and President how is this possible in the richest nation in the world.

China as matter of national policy has lifted 90+% of their population out of poverty. It the Chinese can do it, how is it the US is going the other way?