Y/N?

If so, what does that say about goals and agendas of the political parties?

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Context, please.

Does that mean the opposite of wealth is in-justice???

 

Define poverty: lack of basic necessities OR

free cable, cheap housing, food stamps but making less than a certain amount of cash money for number of people in the household but a whole lot better off than %80 of the population in the rest of the world???

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Edited: 04/16/2012 at 12:33 PM by somebodyelse

pov·er·ty? ?[pov-er-tee]
noun
1.
the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor. Synonyms: privation, neediness, destitution, indigence, pauperism, penury. Antonyms: riches, wealth, plenty.
2.
deficiency of necessary or desirable ingredients, qualities, etc.: poverty of the soil. Synonyms: thinness, poorness, insufficiency.
3.
scantiness; insufficiency: Their efforts to stamp out disease were hampered by a poverty of medical supplies. Synonyms: meagerness, inadequacy, sparseness, shortage, paucity, dearth. Antonyms: abundance, surfeit, sufficiency, bounty, glut.

The most common measure of poverty in the United States is the "poverty threshold" set by the U.S. government. The "Orshansky Poverty Thresholds" form the basis for the current measure of poverty in the U.S.

he Department of Agriculture found that families of three or more persons spent about one third of their after-tax income on food. For these families, poverty thresholds were set at three times the cost of the economy food plan.

United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) figures for poverty in 2011[6]

Persons in
Family Unit 48 Contiguous States
and D.C. Alaska Hawaii
1 $10,890 $13,600 $12,544
2 $14,710 $18,380 $16,930
3 $18,530 $23,160 $21,320
4 $22,350 $27,940 $25,710
5 $26,170 $32,720 $30,100
6 $29,990 $37,500 $34,490
7 $33,810 $42,280 $38,880
8 $37,630 $47,060 $43,270
Each additional
person adds
$3,820 $4,780 $4,390

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