In today's editorial on "Domestic Tranquillity," part of their "American Values" series, the LAT says that in the U.S. "60 million people survive on $7 a day." This has no foundation and on it's website, the LAT has changed the statement twice. Earlier today, the LAT preceded the statement with a qualifying phrase such as "some have said" or "some say." Later, the qualifying phrase was removed.
The source of the statement is Global Research.ca, an "alternative news" radical left-wing Canadian website, which claims that a 2004 analysis by the U. S. Census Bureau reached that conclusion. But nothing similar appears on the Census Bureau's website. Instead, the facts appearing on the Census Bureau website rebut the Global Research claim.
Be very careful about the "facts" cited in LAT editorials.
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