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Poverty, Census Style

There is a super-interesting-study out of Heritage Foundation today on what constitutes poverty in America — in the eyes of the U.S. Census Bureau at least. The results might suprise a lot of people. No one is unsympathetic to the least fortunate among us, but poverty in America is a relative term.  The Census classifies 30 million Americans as “poor”, yet the vast majority […]

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