sentences:  The United States has forty million people living in poverty, and more than half of these people live in "extreme" or "absolute" poverty.Income inequality has increased in recent decades, and large tax cuts that disproportionately favor the very wealthy are predicted to further increase U.S. income inequality.Actual income inequality and public views about the need to address the issue are directly related in most developed countries, but not in the US, where income inequality is larger but the concern is lower.