Letter to the Editor: Definition of "poor" subject of debate

After reading Bernie Sanders’ column last week, one has to think that this is what one writes when he wants more taxpayers’ money to waste on social programs. He makes it sound like this is the worst country in the world, that we have nothing but poor people and that they are worse off than the rest of the world. Here are some interesting facts about the poor in the U.S., which you will never hear or read in the main-stream media.

“In a new report, Heritage's Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield lay out what the U.S. government's own facts and figures really say about poverty in the United State...