That does not at all support your claim &quot;that the US Census Bureau&#x27;s reporting of poverty statistics based on income has changed to NOT include the income of many benefits including food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit&quot;.<p>In fact, it specifically says that the definition has not changed.<p>It does claim as you do that the rate should be near zero, but it does not address the Supplemental Poverty Measure, that <i>does</i> provide a number of scenarios accounting for benefits in kind, and does <i>not</i> end up with numbers near zero when that is taken into account.