{"id":1181,"date":"2009-01-20T10:09:48","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2010-09-06T22:01:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T03:01:37","slug":"the-poverty-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/the-poverty-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poverty Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Two things hold true about the U.S. poverty standard. First, if policymakers agree that living standards have improved since the 1960s, as the evidence shows, that should be reflected in a lower poverty rate. Second, relative poverty thresholds distort the true number of people in absolute deprivation. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncpa.org\/pub\/ba\/ba640\/\"><strong>National Center for Policy Analysis<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">People in need deserve help, but exaggerating the level of poverty in this country and lobbying for socialistic government programs do not help the poor. Leaders of &#8220;charitable&#8221; organizations that engage in these tactics are nothing but liars and thieves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two things hold true about the U.S. poverty standard. First, if policymakers agree that living standards have improved since the 1960s, as the evidence shows, that should be reflected in a lower poverty rate. Second, relative poverty thresholds distort the true number of people in absolute deprivation. &#8212; National Center &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"The Poverty Scam - Politickles","description":"Two things hold true about the U.S. poverty standard. First, if policymakers agree that living standards have improved since the 1960s, as the evidence shows, t"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,1286,764,765,509,762,766,763,1763,508,24],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charity","tag-joe-mueller","tag-living-standards","tag-low-income","tag-poverty","tag-poverty-rate","tag-redistribution-of-wealth","tag-relative-poverty","tag-roger-playwin","tag-social-justice","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}