The people and organizations that use data about relative income to lie about the prevalence of poverty in the United States.
This rogue’s gallery includes:
- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
- The United Nations
- The New York Times
- The Equal Welfare Association
- Eduardo Porter of the New York Times
- The OECD (again)
- Germany’s Institute of Labor Economics
- The Obama Administration
- The European Commission
- Professor Noah Smith
- The Economist
- The OECD (again)
- The OECD (again)
I don’t know if they all overtly lied. I suppose it’s possible that some of them simply shared “poverty” numbers and didn’t realize that the data didn’t actually measure poverty.