Poverty from a sobering perspective

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  • Author(s): By:Andrew S. Ross
  • Source:
    San Francisco Chronicle (CA), October 1, 2013 Business 5star, 2pp
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    • Abstract:
      There are lies, damn lies and statistics, as Mark Twain and others remind us. So, what to make of a new report that puts the number of Californians in poverty at 8.1 million, 25 percent higher than the official government estimate? Or the poverty rate in tech-rich San Francisco at 23 percent, almost double the official rate?...