Problems with Statistics

Here is an example of a post that tries to use statistics to make a point, but the numbers presented make no sense. Read some the comments to get an idea of how wrong this chart is in presenting useful information.

Now, it may be that the United States has a smaller proportion of its population living on less than $11 per day ($4,015 per year), but I doubt it. Next, does this graph account for welfare benefits as income? I seriously doubt it, but those are real considerations.

Now of course, Coyote's argument is that the welfare states of Europe are going worse with their poverty programs that we are. But if a person in the United States is living on $11 a day, it is almost a certainly that they are living on many welfare programs.