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America’s most relied-upon metric for charting a course in our national effort to reduce and eliminate poverty is unreliable and misleading
==Problems with America's official definition==
==Problems with America's official definition==
*America’s most relied-upon metric for charting a course in our national effort to reduce and eliminate poverty appears to offer unreliable, and indeed increasingly misleading, soundings on where we are ...
*In fact, over the past three decades, the relationship between the [Official Poverty Rate and ... other indicators has been perversely discordant. [http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3930481.html]
*In fact, over the past three decades, the relationship between the [Official Poverty Rate and ... other indicators has been perversely discordant. [http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3930481.html]
*the material circumstances of persons officially defined as poor have improved broadly and appreciably over the past four decades. [ibid]
*the material circumstances of persons officially defined as poor have improved broadly and appreciably over the past four decades. [ibid]