JCPA: Measuring Poverty in America
Rabbi Steve Gutow and Melissa Boteach of the Jewish Council of Public Affairs wrote for the Washington Post’s On Faith section on the religious importance of gaining an accurate picture of poverty.
Our ability to gauge how many people are really left behind in our society is reduced to a simple and outdated statistic. This would not do if we looked at people as they are and not as they were… if we put faces to our numbers… if we followed the message of the book of Numbers.
While the inadequacies of the federal poverty measure may seem like a technical and wonky issue, how we determine the factors of poverty will wind up enabling us to conquer the reality of poverty.
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