Thanks! Interesting stats on "poverty" today and from historical figures as well. The item that is noticeably missing from the stats on numbers of cars, TVs, stereos, air conditioning, dishwashers, DVD's, CD's, etc etc
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WHERE are the medical insurance figures????
Heh...looks like the poor continue to rely on the "other folks" to pay for this....they would rather have all the above items....
Sometimes, I wonder if the anti-poverty crusaders even care about the outcomes of the policies that they propose. For example, do food stamps reduce poverty? If so, then one would think that those concerned with poverty would count food stamps when they measure people's income. Instead, they rely for the most part on data on family incomes that exclude government assistance of any kind. That is, the crusaders make policy pronouncements as if poverty reduction depends entirely on government assistance, and yet they measure poverty as if government assistance has no effect whatsoever |
