> non-monetary, in-kind benefits being excluded This seems sane. The real question one should ask is, how many people can earn a living that allows them to mee

> non-monetary, in-kind benefits being excluded This seems sane. The real question one should ask is, how many people can earn a living that allows them to meet basic needs, without state support? You can have a separate figure that out of the number of poor people (like defined in the last sentence), how many are no longer poor with state support?