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Re:Young people in U.S. dying at high rates by dv_dt on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @04:48PM (#21652482)
Poverty rate has improved in since the recession, but the improvement is to get back to basically the same rate as the 1970s.

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

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Re:Young people in U.S. dying at high rates by hcurtiss on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @05:38PM (#21652868)
That's true only if you don't account for transfer payments (e.g., food stamps, state health care, etc.). I would refer you again to the second document I linked above.
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Re:Young people in U.S. dying at high rates by dv_dt on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @07:22PM (#21653596)
That document claims that accounting for transfers not in income (eg. SNAP payments) are a better measure of "consumption poverty rate", yet food insecurity rates are barely returning to 1995 levels. So to me it's really not clear that this other "consumption poverty rate" is an improved measure.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

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