Labor & Economic News Blog


Monday, September 15, 2008

How We Measure Poverty

How We Measure Poverty
Brookings
The U.S. government's method of measuring poverty, established in 1964, is badly outdated and leads to an inaccurate picture of who is, and is not, poor in America. If we want to debate new policies to help the poor, Rebecca Blank argues that we first need a poverty measure that shows us who they really are.

 



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