Re: George Will: poverty caused by lack of hygiene…
Jim Farmelant wrote:
Poverty in the new/old paradigm is the fault of the poor rather than the inevitable result of the workings of a capitalist economy.
Yup, it’s an ancient trope. The Census Bureau has an interesting history of the poverty line and related concepts at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/povmeas/papers/orshansky.html.
Doug