Technogeeb: Robert Reich, Clinton's secretary of labor, "has admitted that the administration didn't adjust the poverty level" during the Clinton administration for fear that it would make the poverty rate would look worse. Check out the May 26, 2001 issue of the New York times for proof of his statement. 942
Perhaps Technogeeb will be kind enough point out a year in which the proverty threshold value did not change, the changes of value are upward infact, during the Clinton administration, and consistent with the trend of prior years as well as those following the Clinton administration.
If there is an exception I can't seem to find one.
refer: the published values of poverty threshold since 1983: http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/threshld.html
refer: also the publish values of poverty guidline values since1982 (the second simplified measure for legislative implementation): http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/figures-fed-reg.htm
Obviously Clinton did not allow HHS and the Census bureau to change the methodology(i.e definition), as many liberals want to to expand the definition of poverty through changing the method by which poverty is measured to expand welfare benefits to a broader group of potential constituents.
The evidence is precisely opposite of what technogeep claims, there is no evidence of a manipulation of the definition or value of the poverty level at the arbitrary whim of bureaucrats in the manner Technogeeb suggests happened.
As we have learned to expect from it.
The evidence is precisely opposite of what technogeep claims, there is no evidence of a manipulation of the definition or value of the poverty level at the arbitrary whim of bureaucrats in the manner Technogeeb suggests happened.
Sigh!
There, I'm over it now. Thanks for the link to the Census Bureau tables. I couldn't get onto the site last night/early morning. Servers were down or something.