Skip to main content

Research Archive

Welcome to Our Research Archive

Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword

November 27, 2025

The Real Math of Survival?

Earlier today (much earlier…) I posted a critique of the new viral post by Michael W. Green claiming that families with less than $140,000 in income should be considered to be in poverty. That critique focused on a truly absurd revision of how we measure poverty that has the effect of making us look dramatically poorer when in fact…