The virtue signaling put me off as well. Although I'm not sure it's specific to America.

The data is the data, and the way it's phrased with "kept out" and "lifted out" both to say the same thing which as I understand the data is that each of these groups were either over or under the poverty line as a result of the incentives. Adding extra weight and flower to the movement is a distraction with the intent of persuasion.