Monday, January 30, 2012
"Is the Obama Administration Politically Manipulating the Poverty Data?"
It is said that statistics can be manipulated to show anything.
We shouldn't be surprised that politicians would do so to gain advantage...
We shouldn't be surprised that politicians would do so to gain advantage...
At PJmedia.com, Tom Blumer writes about manipulating poverty data:
"The Census Bureau’s recently created “Supplemental Poverty Measure” (SPM) looks like a ruse to artificially show economic and poverty-reducing improvement in time for the 2012 presidential election. Longer-term, it appears to be a rigged mechanism for demonstrating how ObamaCare, assuming it survives legal challenges and attempts at repeal, is a resounding success.
If I’m right, the press is doing a really good job of setting things up."
