“The Obama administration Tuesday embraced an alternative way of defining what it means to be poor, stepping gingerly into a long-running debate over whether to revise the method that has been used to measure poverty for decades.” (Washington Post, Wednesday)
We don’t need a redefinition poverty; we need the removal of government barriers to getting out of it.
FEE Timely Classic
“Scratching By: How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It” by Charles Johnson