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To: Katelew who wrote (421659)4/13/2011 2:10:08 PM
From: Geoff Altman1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 793840
 
The reason is that it's a static measurement of a fluid group. People are continuously moving above and below the poverty line.

Exactly why we never get an honest number when it comes to poverty. They should be filtering data to remove people like just graduated college students who often have to except most anything out there initially but within a year or 2 will be finding starts in their chosen careers.
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