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To: Pining_4_TX

Where is the data about how they determine poverty available?


5 posted on 08/01/2011 12:49:59 PM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: stuartcr

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/methods/measure.html

It clearly states that non-cash benefits, such as food stamps, do not count.


12 posted on 08/01/2011 12:59:27 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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