*According to the Indian government.
Alimunisha lives in Lucknow, India with her husband and five children. Their income of $40 a month means they have no running water, electricity or toilet and often eat one meal a day.
According to the Indian government, the family does not live in poverty. But that may soon change, this morning's WSJ reports.
The government is re-evaluating its measures for deciding which of its citizens live in poverty — a key definition that determines who has access to subsidized food and housing assistance.
The shift could increase the official tally of those living in poverty to roughly 400 million, or 37 percent of the population, up from about 300 million now.
The new figure is based on a threshold of $10 per person per month in the countryside and and $13 in cities, the WSJ says. That may still undercount the country's true poverty rate.
For more on India: Check out the recent series from Planet Money's David Kestenbaum.
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