one called the opm, one called the spm. the ap pm does not count most government benefits as income. the spm for supplemental poverty measure does you use the measure that does not cover count government benefits and found no progress against poverty in 50 years? if you use the alternate measure you would see a different trend. you'd see substantial progress of over the past 50 years. so why did you choose to use the measure if you use the regular supplemental poverty measure, it tracks with the official poverty line. in fact, it shows more poverty than the official poverty line over the last 50 years because with the supplemental poverty measure accounts, certain government aid that the official line does it, that's more than offset by higher costs of living, especially housing and health care costs to really show big reductions in poverty, you have to use pretty unique measures. but i think really don't reflect reality. so, i mean, one way to think about this is if we had a measure, a technical measure of happiness, and t