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• vidarh 11y ago
  That does not at all support your claim "that the US Census Bureau's reporting of poverty statistics based on income has changed to NOT include the income of many benefits including food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit". In fact, it specifically says that the definition has not changed. It does claim as you do that the rate should be near zero, but it does not address the Supplemental Poverty Measure, that does provide a number of scenarios accounting for benefits in kind, and does not end up with numbers near zero when that is taken into account.