The poverty of "the poverty rate" : measure and mismeasure of want in modern America
Eberstadt argues that the official poverty rate is incapable of accurately representing long-term trends for material want in modern America, and that standards of living for the official poverty population are far higher today than they were in 1964 or 1965, at the start of the War on Poverty
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