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What’s Wrong with the Poverty Numbers

Robert Murphy teaches economics at Hillsdale College and is an adjunct scholar at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan.
Last fall the U.S. Census Bureau released its annual report on poverty in the United States. The report indicated that the number of people below the official poverty line had risen from 32.9 million [...]

1Apr2004 | Robert P. Murphy | 0 comments | Continued

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