Monday, September 20, 2010

How accurate are the poverty numbers?

If you really want to geek out on the new poverty stats, here's an opinion piece on CNN from a couple of economists about different ways to measure poverty.

It's here, http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/20/meyer.sullivan.census.poverty/.

Basically, they say the Census Bureau doesn't count income from government anti-poverty programs.

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