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Unemployment rates are not poverty rates. And those have been pretty stable since 1950. Less than 4% in 2018 and 2019 for example.
https://www.thebalancemoney.com/unemployment-rate-by-year-3305506
The US standards for poverty have been lowered every few years, so it makes sense its low.
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Negative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States
Corrected for the redesigned equation (see caption of Figure 4). It’s been more or less stable for 50 years.
