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==Problems with America's official definition==
==Problems with America's official definition==
The Hoover Institution says:
*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 ...
*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 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]
*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]
Gordon M. Fisher, Department of Health and Human Services, wrote:
*As technology progresses and the general standard of living rises, new consumption items are introduced. They may at first be purchased and used only by upper-income families; however, they gradually diffuse to middle- and lower-income levels. Things originally viewed as luxuries--for instance, indoor plumbing, telephones, and automobiles--come to be seen as conveniences and then as necessities. [http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/papers/relabs.htm]
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