“The poverty rate has fallen only to 15 percent from 19 percent in two generations, and 46 million Americans live in households where the government considers their income scarcely adequate.”
How about looking at it from the income PLUS benefits point of view. To do that we would have less than 1% anywhere near poverty.
Very true. These stats on poverty ignore things like the EITC, SNAP, subsidized childcare, reduced utility bills, reduced phone bills and subsidized housing.