The Statistics of Poverty

How to perpetuate a crisis by definition

I just decided to create a Blue Sky account (partly for fun but also to use for posting family artwork). The first post I saw was this from Adam Bienkov (who also has more than 155K followers on X):

Although the "1 in 3 kids living in poverty" statistic (or similar) is often used by politicians and activists, it is a meaningless statistical certainty: Th…