{"id":195361,"date":"2008-07-14T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/14\/new-york-city-develops-its-own-poverty-calculation\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:37:00","slug":"new-york-city-develops-its-own-poverty-calculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/14\/new-york-city-develops-its-own-poverty-calculation\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Develops Its Own Poverty Calculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My guess is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/14\/nyregion\/14poverty.html?bl&amp;ex=1216180800&amp;en=c9a6104ee896e341&amp;ei=5087%0A\">city&#8217;s numbers are more accurate than the federal poverty numbers<\/a>, because they consider things that the feds don&#8217;t, like medical expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The number in poverty is 23%, as opposed to 19% under the federal numbers, and of course, some wanker at the American Enterprise Institute was quoted as saying that the poor are, &#8220;a lot better off than they were 20, 30, 40 years ago&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, let&#8217;s go back to outhouses and cholera for the poor, just to be fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guess is that the city&#8217;s numbers are more accurate than the federal poverty numbers, because they consider things that the feds don&#8217;t, like medical expenses. The number in poverty is 23%, as opposed to 19% under the federal numbers, and of course, some wanker at the American Enterprise Institute was quoted as saying that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1140,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poverty","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}