From [2] it looks like poverty has been going up and down staying within 10-15% range for the past 50 years. I'm sure it's possible to construct a measure whic

From [2] it looks like poverty has been going up and down staying within 10-15% range for the past 50 years. I'm sure it's possible to construct a measure which will show that poverty went up - as it's equally possible to show the opposite - but either will mostly likely be overfitting, i. e. hand-picking data to prove the desired point. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States