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    Obama’s New “Spread-the-Wealth” Poverty Measure Off the Table…For Now

    August 12, 2011 at 9:31 am

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    U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media in the State Dining Room of the White House on August 8, 2011.

    Good news: At the end of July, the federal government announced it will not be implementing President Obama’s spread-the-wealth “Supplemental Poverty Measure.” The Census Bureau reported: Since the FY 2011 federal budget did not include the funding requested by the President for the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) initiative, the Census … More

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