Forum Post: Government Manipulating the Census Data on Poverty
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 22, 2011, 8:11 p.m. EST by aries
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Under the Census definition, a family in New York City is “near poor” if it has full medical insurance and an annual income below $77,000. (In Oakland, Calif., the figure is $88,000!)
The Census report actually put nearly half the US population as “low income” — and news stories typically implied the startling new number was the result of sharply deteriorating economic conditions.
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