The Trump Administration Says Poverty Barely Exists and Measuring It Is "Arbitrary"
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Donald Trump meets with members of Congress and administration officials to discuss the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act in the Roosevelt Room at the White House August 23, 2018, in Washington, DC.WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES
BY: Shawn Fremstad
TalkPoverty.org
According to a recent Trump administration report, when poverty is “properly measured,” less than 3 percent of Americans are poor. If that sounds like a dramatic underestimation to you, that’s because it is — the comparable Census Bureau estimate is four times higher. That’s the difference between saying there are about 11 million people with below-poverty incomes in the United States (about the population of Georgia), or 44.8 million (roughly the combined populations of Georgia, New York, Pen...