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Millions of senior citizens can’t afford food – not all live in poverty
- esotericn 7y agoObviously a clickbait headline, but I'll bite anyway. The US government doesn't get to define what "poverty" is. I assume that the article is talking about a specific cut-off for governmental assistance. The headline here, then, is similar to articles about "unemployment" which are actually talking about a specific economic metric rather than what the man on the Clapham omnibus would infer. A person who lives in a city and cannot afford to feed themselves properly is poor. They are in poverty.