New York City Develops Its Own Poverty Calculation

My guess is that the city's numbers are more accurate than the federal poverty numbers, because they consider things that the feds don't, like medical expenses.

The number in poverty is 23%, as opposed to 19% under the federal numbers, and of course, some wanker at the American Enterprise Institute was quoted as saying that the poor are, "a lot better off than they were 20, 30, 40 years ago".

Yep, let's go back to outhouses and cholera for the poor, just to be fair.