Posted Jun 15, 2019, 5:16 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
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That's not what the table says...it's very misleading.
It's the "percentage point difference between official & supplemental measures". In other words, the income-only number vs. the number that includes non-cash government benefits and the costs of necessary expenses. Without knowing what either set of numbers say, it's impossible to infer poverty rates from it.
It also uses "2010-2012 averages" i.e. from early in the economic recovery.
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