FogBlueInSanFran
Well-Known Member
I'm stoked you're teaching me something!! I love to learn!
So, I take what you say on board, but then I'm bothered by this data I picked up from Poverty Research on a 2016 census reading...
https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-current-poverty-rate-united-states
This is the chart from the year before that puts things at a similar rate...
So, to me, there's a 10% shortfall from the info you have to what the research suggest up until 2016 (again, not including the hidden figures I said earlier).
So, tell me, what I'm reading wrong in this data, please?
No, but "poverty" as defined and minimum wage are two different things. Of course I would assume a very large portion of folks below the poverty line are unemployed, or underemployed, and/or living on assistance, and/or live in areas where the cost of living is high relative to income, whatever it is.