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A New Front in the ‘War on Women’
Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Ed Gillespie distorted some economic facts on “Meet the Press” when he accused President Obama of creating a U.S. economy that is “hostile” to women. Gillespie said the “number of single-mother families living in poverty” is now the highest “in recorded history.” But poverty statistics date …
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Another Rick Perry Whopper
Texas Gov. Rick Perry makes another wildly false claim in a new Web ad — saying that the U.S. poverty rate has hit an “all-time high.” In fact, the rate is the highest since 1993, but 7.3 percentage points lower than it was in 1959, according to the U.S. Census …
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Minimum Wage Workers and Poverty
Q: Is a minimum-wage worker officially in poverty? A: A single person working full time at the minimum wage would be barely above the poverty line. A single parent would be below it. FULL QUESTION I have always believed that the poverty line was below minimum wage. Is the poverty …
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