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Why Stanford CA is so poor? It's in middle of Palo Alto!
by msoad 13y ago
Why Stanford CA is so poor? It's in middle of Palo Alto!
- msgilligan 13y agoStudents.
- Bulkington 13y agoProfessors.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoWho actually lives there besides students and subsidized faculty?
- gojomo 13y agoBecause, while this income-only definition of 'poor' is common and often drive policy, it doesn't match what people intuitively think of as 'needy'. We need another map that's based on consumption-poverty, not income-poverty – and controlled for local prices. Unfortunately that data is a lot harder to collect.