Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The way the official poverty rate is calculated, in-kind service provision by definition doesn't count as reducing poverty, but if you look at consumption-based measures of material well-being then you see big improvements. https://t.co/Lxkc8DXdpa https://t.co/n1CuTg12Uf — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 18, 2023

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

I think the War on Poverty was primarily designed to reduce poverty and it's been pretty successful. https://t.co/8qTwHetExG — PolitiTweet.org

Putting aside the evil of forcing those who did not sin to pay those who have not been sinned against, race reparat… https://t.co/Mgb8l3UHgu

Posted Jan. 18, 2023

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The weird thing is there's this whole other school of conservative thought represented by @swinshi which holds "actually poverty has fallen a lot" to be the true lib-owning stance. Either way it's true! https://t.co/J0Hy2qerCD — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 18, 2023