Mason Adams’s Reviews > Poverty, by America > Status Update
Mason Adams
is 7% done
I’m 2 chapters in and I already have some problems with these arguments
1) He mentions how much more we spend per person on social welfare from 1980 to 2018, but fails to mention that the spending is actually BELOW inflation. So in real money we are spending less!
2) He compares our poverty statistics to other countries using total magnitude, not per capita. 300 mil pop US is not the same as 70 mil France
— Jul 09, 2026 10:58AM
1) He mentions how much more we spend per person on social welfare from 1980 to 2018, but fails to mention that the spending is actually BELOW inflation. So in real money we are spending less!
2) He compares our poverty statistics to other countries using total magnitude, not per capita. 300 mil pop US is not the same as 70 mil France
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