You are right, I could have done that and probably should have done that. I have a certain amount of frustration that resulted in me venting rather than contri

You are right, I could have done that and probably should have done that. I have a certain amount of frustration that resulted in me venting rather than contributing. The misuse of the official US poverty stat is not something new. It has been floating around for a while and has been criticized quite a bit -- yet it is still used to put forth misleading arguments out of ignorance most often but not always. Here is a link on this very issue from 2011: https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/understanding-poverty-the-united-states-surprising-facts-about?_ga=2.139130678.443965254.1519341692-1519354153.1479182938 https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/under... It is one thing for a misleading statistic to be repeated in tweets, online discussions, comment streams and so on. It is a completely different thing for the misleading stat to be coming from an "authority". They should know better.