Re: Food Checkout Week

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> <rkshullat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> They're just taking total food expenditures for the year, at-home
>> and away, and dividing by total disposable personal income.  It's
>> a meaningless number.
> 
> Why is that meaningless?

Mathematically correct but unrevealing. One person at half the poverty
level eating on $4/day and Bill Gates eating on $1000/day have an average
expenditure of just over 0.2%, but the one living in poverty is spending
29% of their money on food. BTW, I'm not picking on Mr. Gates (this time)
but his income of about $176 million popped up on a search.

	Robert
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