Subject: Re: File the F*cking motion"
It may have been lame to cite a source you didn't use, but his analysis is at least partially correct. You give money to elevate people out of poverty. Poverty ticks down a smidge. You take that money away. It ticks up a smidge. Totally predictable.

Also, to your other point, the endpoints you choose make a big difference. You chose before-COVID to today. That is a valid basis, but comparing the peak of COVID to today also is valid. That's one reason I looked at a longer time horizon. When you do that, you see that not much has changed in 60 years. Roughly the same percent in 1965 and 2019 and today.