There's a new poverty con. The Obama administration has directed the Census Bureau to create a new poverty measure that measures 'relative' rather than absolute poverty. It increases the number of 'poor' and even more importantly guarantees that the proportion of 'poor' will remain constant and the numbers of 'poor' will continually grow with population (just wait for all of the MSM "ranks of poor rise again" stories) no matter how rich they become.
And of course the MSM is already misreporting this statistical ledgermain in ways that promote the 'need' for more 'anti-poverty' initiatives by our Great and Glorious Federal state. The noted Right Wing Reactionary Micky Kaus explains here.
So when the people responsible for the statistics and the people responsible for reporting the 'news' conspire to present 'new' numbers as the same as the 'old' ones to achieve their political agenda, how do you know what you know?
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