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Poverty Guidelines: Why is There a Large Poverty Class?


February 25th, 2010 · Food and Recipes, World Affairs

poverty guidelines, federal poverty guideline, below poverty line, poverty center, poverty and crime statistics, poverty and inequality, poverty and crime statistics, poverty and social exclusion, relative poverty, poverty threshold, poverty measure, poverty quotes, poverty class, federal poverty line, measuring poverty, poorest cities in america, current poverty levelIn a col­umn on the Huff­in­g­ton Post, Leo Hin­dery, Jr., a for­mer CEO, writes that 100 mil­lion peo­ple in Amer­ica are at or below the offi­cial poverty line, which itself is an absurd, unre­al­is­tic measure.

I agree that poverty erad­i­ca­tion should be a, if not the, top pri­or­ity in this coun­try.  But how?  I, for one, don’t think the gov­ern­ment can do this (partly because even Congress’s half-hearted efforts at a health care bill are lam­basted as “social­ist” by the reac­tionary right).

If you think it can, I’d like to hear from you.

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