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As an aside, the poverty line should be more properly be called the low income line.
It is a measure of relative wealth.
If someone who is below the low income line becomes more wealthy, more people fall below the low income line. Even if nothing about them or their lives changed, the mere fact that others become wealthier all of a sudden makes them poor.
It is a useful measure of income disparity. Calling it a poverty line is misleading.
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