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Lower the poverty line to the median income of people who are currently under the poverty line. You can repeat this as many times as you like to make the pover
by pliny 13y ago
Lower the poverty line to the median income of people who are currently under the poverty line.
You can repeat this as many times as you like to make the poverty rate arbitrarily low.
- gaius 13y agoA lot of statistics like this in the UK are published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which openly admits to using a relative measure of poverty, the bottom third. So say your neighbours on either side were watching Blu-Rays and you had a humble DVD player. They'd count that as "poverty". Every now and then their PR machine will arrange for headlines like "one third of children live in poverty!!!" which sounds terrible in a developed country, but actually, is completely meaningless.
- DanBC 13y agoIs there anyone doing better reporting of poverty in childhood? Or is the problem more around behaviours and societal stuff than money? A Channel 4 documentary is a poor source of information but the breadth and depth of the problem is shown in programmes like Skint. The nihilism of multiple generations, the apathy, the learned hopelessness. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/skint/4od http://www.channel4.com/programmes/skint/4od While these people may not be objectively poor[1] the children have obviously sub-optimal lives. [1] People have homes, and food, and heat.