@GhostCoase The Official Poverty Measure (OPM) has not changed much since the 1970s, suggesting that markets are not pulling people out of poverty. Virtually all of the decline in poverty has been through government transfers. https://t.co/6R097KduTs
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@PM_JMC @RagingVentures @mysticmarkets If you measure properly, poverty has fallen by 40%, mainly due to Government transfers: https://t.co/T3DkS204gk
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@Data_David1 See the figures here (article itself is paywalled though): https://t.co/g4uUSLfaNL
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RT @RAVerBruggen: @swinshi It wasn't even limited to conservatives talking about it! The Columbia poverty measure folks have been charting…