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How is the US in peak poverty? That graph clearly shows the poverty rate being way lower than in '59-65, and lower than at many points since then.



Sorry, I mixed up raw number of people in poverty and percentage, so I removed my comment. Here's the graph for context (for other people reading): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Number_i...




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