Re:The poor don't work because they are economically rational
by gphil on Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:11PM
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If you actually follow the link to the data (ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt) you can see clearly that the $0-5k group spends more than twice as much as all of the other income groups on education, suggesting that there is a much larger proportion of students in this group. Clearly, students shouldn't automatically be considered "poor" just because they do not have income.
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Re:The poor don't work because they are economically rational
by yummyfajitas on Thursday May 12, 2011 @03:39PM
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Interesting - I didn't notice that when I wrote this.
That $1k or so extra that the bottom group spends on education might account for why spending actually goes down as you go from $0-5k to $5-10k.
As for excluding students from poverty numbers, unfortunately I don't think anyone does this. You are correct that they should do this, however.