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Fri 03 Mar 2010Campaigner defends definition of poverty by measuring median income
JOINT COMMITTEE ON EUROPEAN AFFAIRS:ONE OF Ireland’s best-known anti-poverty campaigners has defended the manner in which poverty is measured in this country.
Fr Sean Healy, a director of Social Justice Ireland, said criticisms of how poverty is measured was based on an erroneous impression of how the poverty line was calculated.
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