[lbo-talk] George Will: poverty caused by lack of hygiene...

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Mar 6 14:33:17 PST 2006


Jim Farmelant wrote:


>Poverty in the new/old paradigm is the fault of the
>poor rather than the inevitable result of the workings
>of a capitalist economy.

Yup, it's an ancient trope. The Census Bureau has an interesting history of the poverty line and related concepts at <http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/povmeas/papers/orshansky.html>.

Doug



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