[lbo-talk] Saturday, Doug, Reed, and Heritage on poverty

[Seth Ackerman]

Chuck Grimes wrote:
> I love the use of scare quotes on poor, terrible, incredible, and
> plague. Beleive me, if you're living on 10.7k here you're a miracle
> worker or homeless. Something is seriously out of sync between US
> Census poverty lines and the Hertiage report. But I can't figure it
> out. If I apply US Census poverty line figures to local reality, then,
> the official poor must only include the homeless. If I believe the
> Hertiage report picture, the poor are much better off than me.
>
>   

http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=41

Seth