Your question is like saying "if you define green as the colour of grass, how can you make grass yellow?" If you take a sensible real-world definition of the p

Your question is like saying "if you define green as the colour of grass, how can you make grass yellow?" If you take a sensible real-world definition of the poverty threshold, such as "earning less than 60% of the median full-time wage", then you can do so by pegging the BIG to 60% of the median full-time wage.