Last week I wrote about the 1 of 2 households in poverty figure. This post from Slate questions the figures, cites census analysts saying that the low-income households actually are closer to 1/3, which is what the census shows. As the Slate article reports:
"It's not exactly clear where the mistake came from -- or, for that matter if the original reports got their math wrong -- but the Census officials speculated to the NBC station that it was a case of reporters misunderstanding the data."
But what interests me is that the news story spread to over 300 different news outlets. It appears as though one outlet got the information wrong and then others took the report as fact.
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