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There are many places where a person can go to find out information about important issues. Since there are so many places where one can obtain information about any possible topic that they would like to know about, sometimes it is hard to tell what sources are reliable and what sources are not. In most cases a person will need to rely on multiple sources to find valid information. This is especially true when one is dealing with statistics. A person can find statistics on just about anything. However, this does not mean that each statistic that is published it true, even if the source does seem reliable. Since this is true, it is important for a person to rely on multiple sources to compare statistics and analyze to the best of their ability which statistics they believe are true. In this paper statistics involving poverty will be looked at and because there are many contradicting statistics about poverty it is important that more then one source is used to find out which......

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