They brag about cutting childhood poverty in half as though that’s the best they can do. No it is not the best they can do.

Mar 15, 2021 · 5:03 AM UTC

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They also don’t acknowledge that the way we measure poverty is severely outdated thebullmoosenote.substack.co…
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It only works because the poverty rate assumes people make LESS than $7.50 and also assumed that they would actually follow through on passing the minimum wage hike to $15
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For 1-3 months. More non-existent incrementalism.
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What do you think is the best option when poverty is the other of the day
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Rather like braging about staving only half of the children ! So Nobel!
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It’s also a (too high) estimate of a gamed statistic that will last only 1 year
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They didn’t even do that.
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and it’s not what they did...
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