Columnist at the Washington Post Lies About Poverty…Again Dan Mitchell

Simply stated, Porter’s chart is dishonest nonsense because it is not measuring poverty.
I have a special page called Poverty Hucksters, which features people or institutions (such as the Obama Administration, Steven Greenhouse, and the United Nations) that have deliberately lied about poverty...
Here’s a chart from his recent column in the Washington Post, augmented by my question about whether his numbers are accurate.

Simply stated, Porter’s chart is dishonest nonsense because it is not measuring poverty.

I’m not joking. If you read the fine print, what the chart really shows is the percentage of the population with less than half the median income...