Original sentence: Brazil is one of the most economically unequal countries in the world with the top 10 percent of its population earning 50 percent of the national income and about 34 percent of all people living below the poverty line
Edited sentence: Brazil is one of the most economically unequal countries in the world, (though not as bad as the United States) with the top 10 percent of its population earning 50 percent of the national income and about 34 percent of all people living below the poverty line