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							<title><![CDATA[Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/06/09/why-the-very-poor-have-become-poorer/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Christopher Jencks</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to the Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans living in poverty is higher today than it was in the late 1960s. Last year I argued in these pages that these &ldquo;official&rdquo; poverty statistics are extremely misleading.1 When the United States first explicitly defined...]]></description>
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