Real Info on Poverty & Income Inequality

On numerous occasions on this blog, I have pointed out that the government's data on poverty and income inequality are systematically fraudulent. For starters, they define "income," for purposes of determining both poverty and income inequality, in a way to arbitrarily exclude well over a trillion annual dollars of government transfers and benefits, leading to results that are entirely misleading. And then those intentionally misleading results are used to advocate for yet more government programs and transfers, all of which will again be excluded when measuring poverty and inequality in the next round. For a few examples of my previous posts on this subject, see here, here and here. If you have time, I would recommend reading those for background.