Siteadmin, Check users, nsTeam1RO, nsTeam1RW, nsTeam1_talkRO, nsTeam1_talkRW, oversight, Administrators
30,650
edits
Changes
The poor are getting substantially richer
*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]
*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. [ibid]