Comedy at AP: Economist Says Unchanged 29-Year High in Poverty Rate Sh

Tom Blumer
September 12th, 2012 10:22 PM
In her writeup covering the Census Bureau's latest release of income and poverty data, Hope Yen at the Associated Press quoted University of Michigan economist Sheldon Danziger, who specializes in "Applied Policy, Labor Markets, Poverty and Social Welfare," describing the news that the official poverty rate was statistically unchanged, moving from 15.1% of all Americans to 15.0%, as "good news…