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Poverty Down Only 4.5% Points |
Poverty Down 14.2% Points |
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War on Poverty, Was it Lost? Editors
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Liars, Dame Liars and Statisticians This data shows a tremendous increase in spending on our safety net but there are two problems. First, total spending is not adjusted for inflation which has been was very high in the 1970's and high the rest of the century. Using appropriate techniques yields a drop in poverty to 4.8%. The More Relevant Question is Why isn't the CBO providing basic data using appropriate methods to judge the specific questions related to this and other issues. The CPI-U is an all-purpose index that is often inappropriately used. |
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Editors Note: People that really annoy me are those on either side of an issue that know they are using misleading statistics but continue for the personal gain that results. Others do so because of human prejudice for a particular idea and this is difficult to control. And the Answer Is? U.S. Government Defined Poverty
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Another Relevant Question
What if people reporting all these people especially children who are supposedly staving are basing there numbers on the official rate that does not include food stamps and help paying for school lunches? Do you think they do it so you will donate to their nonprofit program to help the poor? To get elected? Have you ever checked out salaries at guidestar.org.
See For Poorer and Richer NYT 3/14/15 |