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Friday, November 21, 2008
Improving the Measurement of Poverty
Improving the Measurement of PovertyEvent Information:
December 09, 2008, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
On December 9, The Hamilton Project will host a policy forum and release a new discussion paper on the need for a new national poverty measure. In their paper, co-authors Rebecca M. Blank of the Brookings Institution and Mark H. Greenberg ofGeorgetown University propose a new poverty measure that better reflects the actual economic conditions of low-income Americans. Hamilton Project Advisory Council members Roger C. Altman of Evercore Partners and Robert Reischauer of the Urban Institute will open the forum and lead the discussion.
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