Poverty rate drops for first time since 2006

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The Obama Recovery in full swing.

Let's hope you are right, but this is just a half percent drop and it took three years since the official end of the recession for this to change direction.

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The added healthcare coverage of the program that shall not be named which got implemented in the year 2014 probably contributed a lot.

They don't have the 2014 figures estimated yet. This is 2013.

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Thank you, President Obama, and the senators who passed the stimulus.

All that stimulus money didn't stop the poverty rate from rising for 4 years, so why do you think this small dip is thanks to it?  Are they still dishing it out?

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Thank you, President Obama, and the senators who passed the stimulus.

All that stimulus money didn't stop the poverty rate from rising for 4 years, so why do you think this small dip is thanks to it?  Are they still dishing it out?

Fallacy. The stimulus prevented a steeper drop into recession and a slower climb out, which would have caused greater depths of poverty.

I recall we spoke a few days ago where you struggled with the idea of the multiplier effect, so I understand if you have issues with this.

Yeah, I'm not seeing how it makes sense to connect a single data point to a supposed cause based on a counterfactual.  A multiplier may just as easily be less than 1.