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[PEN-L:698] Re: redefining the poor out of existence

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>

It sounds like Canada is shifting over to the US way of defining poverty. Is
this true?

>
> But being officials who represented a wide array of governments, they were
> reluctant to endorse the potato peeling and mouldy bread standard. So they
> declared this to be one extreme.
>
> Then they declared Statscan's LICO the other extreme. And they came up
with a
> definition of poverty that sat in the middle, based on what they thought a
> poor family should eat, wear and spend on rent.


Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html

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<blockquote type=cite cite></blockquote>It sounds like Canada is shifting
over to the US way of defining poverty. Is this true?<br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>But being officials who represented a wide
array of governments, they were reluctant to endorse the potato peeling
and mouldy bread standard. So they declared this to be one extreme.
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Then they declared Statscan's LICO the other extreme. And they came up
with a definition of poverty that sat in the middle, based on what they
thought a poor family should eat, wear and spend on rent.
</blockquote><br>
<div>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &amp;
<a href="http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html"; EUDORA=AUTOURL>http://clawww.lmu.edu/Departments/ECON/jdevine.html</a></div>
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