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Re:A world of free movement would be $78T richer by setr on Saturday June 23, 2018 @08:28PM (#17384256)
Theres only ~300 million people in the us, so the gp's source is claiming something like 10% poverty

Something's clearly misaligned with the definition of poverty between your sources; you're differing by an order of magnitude

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Re:A world of free movement would be $78T richer by schoen on Saturday June 23, 2018 @10:38PM (#17384644)
That's a huge difference. I assume different sources did use quite different measures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Measuring_poverty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold

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