> Just being born in the US already makes you a top 10%

Our family learned how long-term hunger (via poverty) is worse in the US because there was no social support network we could tap into (for resource sharing).

Families not in crisis don't need a network. Families in crisis have insufficient resources to launch one. They are widely scattered and their days are consumed with trying to scrape up rent (then transpo, then utilities, then food - in that order).