>The problem was not only that they used her numbers to create a
>"poverty" line, but which ones they chose and what they did with them.
>But what's the basis for saying she was disturbed about it? Did you
>hear the interview? Did she say so there? That's been my recollection
>too, but I don't know where I got it; I can't remember seeing anything
>she wrote that says that.
I've seen her quoted in several articles saying that she'd never intended her work to be used the way it was. I think Deborah Stone had one in The American Prospect a few years ago. She wasn't too harsh about it, though.
Doug