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The author did not apprise the reader of the measure of poverty, so it is assumed that the way poverty is measured is the same over the decades. This may not be true so in this instance the comparison can be misleading. The use of the median as a measure of income level is a consistent use of a statistical measure. The median is a more robust measure of national