GGG, good point I didn't give the link. It was from this post earlier in the thread. Click the link, it is on the right hand side. There is also a brief discussion of an alternate form of statistically measuring poverty, but is similarly impaired IMO.
That is what gets me, when the news headline is about the child poverty rate is so high, and we arent doing enough to get it down. Everyone considered in poverty could be 20% better off than 2 years ago, but if the median of disposable income for Canada had also gone up 20% then the percentage of childhood poverty wouldn't change.
Same thing when comparing us to other countries. Another country may just have a lower median, resulting in fewer people in poverty, even if their actual standard of living was substantially worse.
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