The Poor Get Poorer

Shocking but true, The Wall Street Journal editorial page's "The Poor Get Richer" characterization of a new CBO study (PDF) is misleading. Here's the real shape of things: See Jon Chait for analysis of how they twist everything around. Brendan Nyhan has even more and I got the chart from him.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/05/the-poor-get-poorer/42372/