Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addresses the audience at the Environmental Justice Presidential Candidate Forum at South Carolina State University on Nov. 8, 2019 in Orangeburg, S.C. Sean Rayford/Getty Images
A new report from the progressive economic organization Groundwork Collaborative shows that U.S. poverty figures have been undercounted by 3 million due to “inflation inequality,” which occurs when prices rise higher for those on the bottom of the income distribution than they do for everyone else.
