Sailor (08-05-2020)
What's really funny here is their fight against the Supplemental Poverty Measure. It's not like some right wing group created it. It was a collaboration of academics and government agencies the determined we need a better way to measure and understand poverty in this country. Thus they came up with this more detailed measure. And when one drops the partisan mindset it makes total sense that cost of living, benefits received etc. etc. all play a role in determine one's economic standing and that's what the SPM does.
And what can be misleading about the county's with the highest poverty rates is that rural and urban areas are very different. We all know many cities have massive poverty numbers but because there is also significant wealth so close by those county's don't show up. Many of the rural areas don't have the same wealth nearby. And these counties may have only 5K people in them compared to tens of thousands of people in poverty in an urban area. So it's not that there isn't rural poverty. There clearly is. But you have to look deeper at the numbers to get a full understanding.
Sailor (08-05-2020)
It should be a no brainer.......$1000 goes a lot farther in Sioux Falls, SD than it does in San Francisco.......
there instead of it being one third of your rent, it could be all your rent, groceries for a couple of weeks, gas money for a month and a six pack of beer......
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Sailor (08-05-2020)
As a counter to your argument, one measure of quality of life might be happiness. Blue states tend to be unhappy ones.
Same goes for "well being."
Home ownership is higher in Red states
Homelessness is far higher in Blue states
Now, if you talk about nearly meaningless measures like how many people in a state have a bachelor's degree, or average incomes, or the price of homes, blue states do much better. But money doesn't buy happiness nor does it bring an overall increase in quality of life.
Last edited by T. A. Gardner; 08-05-2020 at 05:30 PM.
Back to the OP maybe there's an answer for this but what came to my mind is the number of variables involved. More specifically how do we compare the different circumstances of people? For example, there are some people who are born, raised and live their whole live in one city/area. There are others who immigrate to the U.S. later in life (in California over 25% of the population is foreign born). There are people who live in multiple states as well as all over the world in their lifetime. How does that get calculated? Are they treated the same in the analysis?
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