We know our Official Poverty Measure (OPM) is wrong, but we still use it to redistribute $2.9T. Poverty is about well-being : does a person have enough resources to reach a basic standard of living? Add up what they have—earnings, assets, and benefits—subtract the costs of life, then somewhere along that continuum we draw a line in the sand, "Anyone below this line is poor", we decry. As you can imagine, there're thousands of ways to do this, making it stranger that we don't

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