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A5a: Having an accurate measure of #poverty is critical to ensuring that working families, children, seniors, & people with disabilities can make ends meet: cbpp.org/research/pover… #RedefiningPoverty #FoodFri
A5b: The official #poverty line is already too low. Prices have been rising faster than the current poverty line accounts for. 1 example? The poorest 5th of households devote 2x as large a share of spending to rent than the average household. cbpp.org/research/pover… #FoodFri
A5c: The #RedefiningPoverty Trump admin proposal would make an already low #poverty line increasingly inadequate to a raise a family. #FoodFri 
This proposal from the Trump Administration would be disastrous for low-income Americans. #RedefiningPoverty
According to @CenteronBudget, more than 250,000 low-income seniors and people with disabilities would lose, or get less, from Extra Help—increasing their Rx drug costs. #RedefiningPoverty
More than 300,000 children would lose Medicaid or CHIP coverage, and some pregnant women would lose Medicaid or CHIP coverage, as well. #RedefiningPoverty
