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Shorter Heritage Foundation Study on Poverty




Posted at 10:01 by Sadly, No!

Understanding Poverty in America

You’re not really poor unless you’re starving, naked, or homeless.

Heritage link from Pandagon.

2 Comments »

  1. No Fear of Freedom said,

    January 8, 2004 at 4:39

    Right Wing Idiocy About Poverty

    The Heritage ConFoundation came up with this crapola and, though I know one author is a senior research fellow and the other a Ph.D., I’m gonna take ‘em on. Heritage only hires 2nd, 3rd, and 4th rate scholars and outright frauds. Fortunately, all I hav…

  2. buckethead said,

    January 25, 2004 at 5:29

    There is a difference between absolute poverty and relative poverty. If you have a house, a tv a car, food on the table and so on - you just have less money than some people. That is relative poverty and you’re better off than most people in the world, or who ahve ever lived.

    Absolute poverty is the Hobbesian thing, and that we do have very little of in this country.

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