Repeating the Mistakes of the Great Society | Amity Shlaes (Repost)
Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw
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The Poverty Metric in the Fifties
There was no darned poverty metric in the fifties. It just didn't exist. Once you have a number, you have to do something about it. We and of course, it's complicated ean the way we measure it. Now i believe it's just based on income, but that doesn't mean poverty. Like a ten ager could have a very low income living with his parents, and be considered in poverty. A senior citizen who's basically retired, but maybe has some income, would be considered in Poverty. But of course, isn't, because if maybe savings or social securitye. So it's, it's, itsm it's a deeply politicized
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