Re: "More Americans living in poverty now than there were in 1965...Economic realities on Main Street"

"T.Carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>   I dont subscribe to "analysis" from a major trade union, but rather
> would use the data from the government sources. The data indicates
> that poverty rates increase after recessions. As employment is a
> lagging economic indicator, it is no suprise that poverty numbers and
> rates follow the same trend.
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>   http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/poverty02/pov02fig1.jpg
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> T.Carr
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I hate to break the news to you, but I worked in and with government
produced stats for 8 years and I can assure you that government stats are
most definitely skewed to make the point of whatever party is in control of
the pay checks and livelihood of the statisticians.