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*In fact, over the past three decades, the relationship between the [Official Poverty Rate] and ... other indicators has been perversely discordant.<ref name = "hoover">[http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3930481.html Hoover Institution - The Mismeasure of Poverty] Nicholas Eberstadt</ref>

*In fact, over the past three decades, the relationship between the [Official Poverty Rate] and ... other indicators has been perversely discordant.<ref name = "hoover">[http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3930481.html Hoover Institution - The Mismeasure of Poverty] Nicholas Eberstadt</ref>

*the material circumstances of persons officially defined as [[poor]] have improved broadly and appreciably over the past four decades.<ref name = "hoover"/>

*the material circumstances of persons officially defined as [[poor]] have improved broadly and appreciably over the past four decades.<ref name = "hoover"/>

*The official poverty rate is incapable of representing what it was devised to portray: namely, a constant level of absolute need in American society. The biases and flaws in the poverty rate are so severe that it has depicted a great period of general improvements in living standards — three decades from [[1973]] onward — as a time of increasing prevalence of absolute poverty.<ref name = "hoover"/>

*The official poverty rate is incapable of representing what it was devised to portray: namely, a constant level of absolute need in American society. The biases and flaws in the poverty rate are so severe that it has depicted a great period of general improvements in [[living standards]] — three decades from [[1973]] onward — as a time of increasing prevalence of absolute poverty.<ref name = "hoover"/>

[[Gordon M. Fisher]], Department of [[Health]] and Human Services, wrote:

[[Gordon M. Fisher]], Department of [[Health]] and Human Services, wrote: