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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by rayiner on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:50PM (#20783996)
Hence the statistics I presented below that, showing that the poverty rate went down dramatically over that period.
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Re:In effect, Seattle is decriminalizing the use of hard drugs by tkxxx7 on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:11PM (#20784137)
You did - I should add that I didn't consider their breakdown sufficient enough:

> In 2013, for example, the average poverty threshold for an individual living alone was $11,888; for a two-person family, $15,142; and for a family of four, $23,834.7

I wasn't alive in 1969, but for 2013, that threshold is quite low - it may make sense for poverty, but it is not a net wide enough to catch a significant portion of (relatively) poor people whose addictions have grown to far outweigh their paychecks.

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