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In anti-poverty research, a child is considered to live in poverty if that child lives in a home whose income falls below the statistical low income cutoff poin
by hluska 6y ago
In anti-poverty research, a child is considered to live in poverty if that child lives in a home whose income falls below the statistical low income cutoff point. That’s ‘the poverty line’ that you’ve hopefully heard of.
Finally, we are talking about child poverty - a little bit of respect and perhaps some research would be a far better complement than lowbrow snark.
- JamesBarney 6y agoChild poverty isn't a laughing matter, but weird statistics are. How would we make children not the poorest age group? First poor families are more likely to have more kids than well to do ones, and kids raise the income you need to be above the poverty line. Better statistics revolve around specific needs that children have and what percentage of those are satisfied.
- hluska 6y agoYour last paragraph is completely true but better statistics are expensive. And you might be shocked by how little money there is in the anti-poverty racket...:) Consequently, we’re stuck with statistical measures based on deviations from income and cost of living.