More on the Market Basket Measure of Poverty. Richard Shillington has done a great paper outlineing what is going on at; http://home.iSTAR.ca/~ers2/poverty/MBM.htm Also more background at: http://home.iSTAR.ca/~ers2/poverty/poverty.htm Thought this was worth sharing as it details the impact of income inequality and also why the market basket poverty line is a problem,
