These Statistics Will Comfort You in Your Poverty  For the
past... I don't know, hundred years? It feels like it's been a
hundred years since this recession began. Perhaps fewer. Anyhow,
things have been bleak for a while. But unwrap your lips from
that loaded handgun, poverty-stricken American: things are
statistically better than you thought!  No, continuing to read
this post will not earn you any money. You just read it for
satisfaction, that's it. I have no change. Sorry. What I'm
telling you is that the Census Bureau is coming out with an
updated, more accurate measure of poverty, which takes into
account more factors than previous measures, and under which "as
much as half of the reported rise in poverty since 2006
disappears."  Congratulations! Millions of you are officially
doing better than you were yesterday, in an abstract statistical
sense.   But wait, there's more. Were you concerned about the
fact that your crushing student debt makes you part of the most
student-loan-having generation in histor