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>I respond:
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>The point is that since those incarcerated previously made up a
>significant fraction of the bottom end of income distribution, removing
>them from the pool (i.e. throwing them in the slammer) has the effect of
>making p.c. income increase. What I'm suggesting as a possibility
>(guidance on this point by "the pros" greatly appreciated) is that those
>towards the top and at the middle are doing about the same and those at
>the bottom are simply treated as if they don't exist for the purpose of
>statistics. Not my idea of a big improvement, but the sort of
>"improvement" which Clinton routinely trumpets, hence the remark below.
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i woud guess that the census bureay didn't catch up with a lot of folks. here in florida, during the last census count, people simply didn't go into the neighborhoods that they were afraid of. rather, they just made the numbers up based on a guess.
i forgot to mail mine in. i filled it out and then it got buried in a pile. a follow up came. he filled stuff in about my income!
kelley