I am current living at Houston Texas , about 13 years , if you want to work , you still can get about 1000 to 2000 USD a month ,the poor people they are just lazy .
Yes, there are a lot of poor people in US, but there are so many jobs avialable for these minimum educated peoeple also, just a lot of them being ignore !!!!!
US is a big country. Regardless of what politicians tell us, the existence of inequality is inevitable, especially the great divide between rich and poor.