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Great idea. I hope it works. Even if it doesn't work, if it provides experimental data, that will be valuable. One line I didn't like from the article: It’s
by mathattack 10y ago
Great idea. I hope it works. Even if it doesn't work, if it provides experimental data, that will be valuable.
One line I didn't like from the article:
It’s obviously difficult to lift people out of poverty. According to the White House, as of 2012 (decades after President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty"), approximately 15 percent of Americans (or 49.7 million people, including 13.4 million children) live below the poverty line. Worse still, "only about half of low-income Americans make it out of the lowest income distribution quintile over a 20-year period." (As the old saying goes: "It’s expensive to be poor.")
I think this can be very misleading. Is the poverty line a good definition? And if everyone's standard of living rises over 20 years, is it an issue to be in the bottom quintile? I'm not saying it is or isn't, just that it's very shabby statistics. (Maybe I just shouldn't read articles like this)