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    Poverty, by America
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    1. chrisaldrich 09 Nov 2024
      Itdisappears them into jails and prisons, effectively erasing them: Theincarcerated are simply not counted in most national surveys, resulting in afalsely rosy statistical picture of American progress. Poverty measuresexclude everyone in prison and jail—not to mention those housed in psych

      wards, halfway houses, and homeless shelters—which means there are millions more poor Americans than official statistics let on.

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