"It has always been hard to measure poverty, because poverty is as much a state of mind as a condition of material well-being. Still, we seem to have made a bad situation worse."
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About poverty in the United States, Will the real poverty rate please stand up?, September 11, 2019, '.
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Robert J. Samuelson
Robert Jacob Samuelson (born December 23, 1945) was a conservative journalist for ', where he has written about business and economic issues since 1977. He was a columnist for ' magazine from 1984 to 2011.
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