These statistics opened my eyes to how truly blessed we are….
· If your combined household earns more than $24,600 a year you are in the top 10% of all income earners in the world, and if you earn more than $47,500 you are in
the top 1% in the world.
· The average monthly salary for someone living in Afghanistan is only $14 a month.
· 37 million Americans live below the National poverty line. That’s 1 in every 8 Americans living in poverty.
· 3.5% of U.S. households (that’s people within a home), experience hunger.
That’s 9.6 million people each and every day going hungry.
· An estimated 750,000 people in America experience homelessness on any given day and out of those people only 56% find shelter at night for sleeping while the other
44 percent end up sleeping on the streets.
I am grateful for our warm home… I am grateful that we always have some kind of food in our refrigerator... I am grateful that my children have a safe place to lay their head at night… I am so, so grateful!
SOURCE: Statistics from Positive Thinking Toolbox by Bonnidette Lantz