'Increase in poverty inspires generosity'

One in six Americans is now living in poverty. Dina Gusovsky talks to social media entrepreneur and philanthropist Toan Lam about how the downturn in the economy is also inspiring people to help each other. More inspirational stories can be found on his Web site, goinspirego.com.

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[murk2002]

Where are you getting your figures? The top 5 manufacturin coutries are the US, China, Japan and Germany idiot : ). The only thing Russia manufactures is that stupid fucking matryoshka doll, lol. Your economy is not diverse which spells doom in the long term and all of your top scientist have left the coutry. You make almost nothing the world wants and once oil & gas bubble busts it's back to the 90's for Russia.

[MoscowMaestro]

The USA is a bankrupt nation. You manufacture NOTHING, ZERO, ZILCH, NADA. It's all made in China or Turkey or Indonesia. You guys just sit on your 500lb lardasses on the stoop and do nothing. You're the world's laughing stock.

[murk2002]

Even though the US is in debt with a high deficit does to world still look to the US as an economic or Russia? The fact is that Russia isn't even in the world economic equation with your one trick pony oil and gas economy. You don't invent anything anymore almost all of your top scientist live abroad. Russia is no diamond sorry to break your delusions of grandure : )

[MoscowMaestro]

Why do I have to "trust you" when I live here and see the situation for myself? There is a major difference. USA has trillions of debts it cannot pay. Russia doesn't have $0.01 of debt, it has a surplus! Your economy is in tailspin, and it's going to get worse. You borrowed, and borrowed... and now it's payback time, and you're broke!!

[KnightTriple6]

well, it doesnt matter what language you speak and it doesnt matter where in the world you come from poverty, misery, and hopelessness doesnt discriminate. You

People Got What You Piad For when ou voted for obama. Yes, we can't.

[murk2002]

haha, you don't think America and the world knows we are in an economic recession MoscowMaestro idiot. About 90% of RT stories are about the US, trust me Russia is not fairing well at all during this crisis. Look at your own standard of living in Russia trust me it isn't that great.

[MoscowMaestro]

Keep up the lies, you gutless moron. You can't bury the TRUTH with offtopic stories about other countries, yankee!!

[Aschmedai]

1 in 6 just sounds like a lot of people

[ENJOYOURMATRIXX]

to topic should be:

Increase in poverty inspires new world order agenda and more government control

[murk2002]

The number of Russians living below the subsistence minimum rose for the first time since 2002, the Novye Izvestia newspaper reports. Government figures indicated that some 24.5 million people, or 17.4% of the population, were living below the poverty line in the first quarter of 2009, up from 16.3% a year earlier. RT get a life.