Actually, US poverty levels *don't* vary by region, with one minor exception (Alaska and Hawaii have slightly higher standards than the other 48 states), and they really should, and the entire definition of poverty in the US is so effed up I wouldn't even know where to begin.
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Date: 2012-07-08 10:02 pm (UTC)Agreed on the rest of this.