Why the Government's Poverty Benchmark is Built on a Broken Formula

Michael Maloney shares a research effort that sought to discover why the current "official" poverty rate seems so low by comparison to the cost of modern living. The answer lies in the long outdated correlation of work value to just one category of existence: food expense. A lot has changed since the 1960s formula was established. One must wonder if there is a deliberate motive behind the "trap" created by the "poverty line" relief system and the punishing costs of rising up from that poverty level. From the perspective of the study, it looks very much like a plan to subjugate the majority while protecting a pool of favored wealthy "owners" of everything. Sinister, don't you think?