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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He really wasn't calculating it as a poverty level. More of a solid middle class level in a metro area. I don't agree with the number, but I think the high cost of child care really screws up other poverty level numbers.[/quote]True, and the real story here is that in 1963 government assistance was given to families in the lower middle class. Whereas today only the desperately poor get any help. Back then we had a real social safety net to give people a hand up, whereas today we are every family for themself. Don't focus on how what they counted in 1963 really wasn't poverty in today's lingo. Ask instead why we have lowered the bar so much that no one but the absolute poorest can get any help.[/quote]
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