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Millions of senior citizens can’t afford food – not all live in poverty (marketwatch.com)
9 points by howard941 on May 26, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Obviously a clickbait headline, but I'll bite anyway.

The US government doesn't get to define what "poverty" is.

I assume that the article is talking about a specific cut-off for governmental assistance.

The headline here, then, is similar to articles about "unemployment" which are actually talking about a specific economic metric rather than what the man on the Clapham omnibus would infer.

A person who lives in a city and cannot afford to feed themselves properly is poor. They are in poverty.




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