The time needed to get $1 in international dollars is 63 minutes in the US. This is about twice the average in Germany, France and the UK according to an Oxford University researcher. This suggests that average poverty is significantly higher in the US.
Idk how it is in Germany, but here in Italy you have to have held a job that fired you for, let’s say, non-disciplinary reasons, you must not have resigned yourself, and you have to subscribe to unemployment lists, which means an agency will have the task of finding you a suitable (shitty) job which you can’t refuse or you’ll lose your benefits.