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Matthew Desmond, "Poverty, By America"

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The Left's Argument for Progress on Poverty

The OPM does not count most government benefits as income. The SPM for supplemental poverty measure does. To really show big reductions in poverty, you have to use pretty unique measures that I think really don't reflect reality.

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