American Enterprise Institute

Even the Supplemental Poverty Measure Skews Our Views of Poverty

Last month, the Census Bureau released the official and supplemental poverty measures; both intended to measure hardship in America. For the country as a whole, each measure showed impressive gains, ...
LAist

New metric to measure poverty

New metric to measure poverty Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a long-promised alternative method for measuring who’s officially considered poor and who isn’t. The old approach, established 50 ...
Yahoo

Poverty in the U.S. increased last year, even as incomes rose, Census Bureau says

The number of Americans living in poverty has gone up, even as incomes rose last year, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Tuesday. Measuring poverty can be tricky − but the main number social scientists ...
Wall Street Journal

Another Wrong Way to Measure Poverty

Wonder Land: Citing the president’s age lets Democrats off the hook for the political failure of his economic policies. Images: AP/AFP/EPA/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The credibility of the ...
American Enterprise Institute

Changing the Official Poverty Measure Would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States

In this post I discuss the policy implications of declaring the Supplemental Poverty Measure the new official measure, an action that could be taken unilaterally by the Director of the Office of ...
Center for Public Integrity

Why the way we measure poverty matters

The way the country defines poverty has ripple effects for people's ability to access government help, including the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program, known as WIC. (Justin Sullivan/Getty ...
Forbes

Series: Are We Using A Poor Measure For Poverty?

The measure of poverty in the United States, a basic basket of essential food items, hasn't changed in almost 60 years. One other stop we need to make before we delve into a look back at the look back ...

Measuring poverty better to strengthen tuberculosis research

Tuberculosis (TB) has long been recognized as a disease of poverty, yet most TB research does not measure poverty in a ...
The New York Times

The Unfinished Pursuit of a Better Poverty Measure

On Tuesday the Census Bureau is scheduled to release income and poverty statistics for 2022. It’s safe to say that the report will be hard to interpret. Last year, the two poverty measures released by ...

Gov’t better equipped to measure, address poverty

The Government of Jamaica is now better equipped to measure and address poverty across the island following the launch of the ...
Yahoo

Key U.S. poverty measure hit record low in 2021 largely due to federal aid

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hot weather in Boston (Reuters) -A key measure of how many Americans lived in poverty in 2021 fell to a record low thanks in large ...