Poverty Measurement
What We're In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next Recession
John Schmitt and Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2008
Counting What Counts. (Opinion) Read Article
Douglas W. Nelson, Washington Times, August, 2007
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Related to Poverty Guidelines and Poverty
Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS, February 2007
How to Improve Poverty Measurement in the United
States
Rebecca M. Blank, University of Michigan and Brookings Institution, November 2007
National Academy of Sciences
Workshop on Experimental Poverty Measures, October 2007
Working Papers and More Information from the Census Bureau on the National Academy of Sciences Recommendations.
The Mismeasure of Poverty
Nicholas Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute, August 2006
How Poor are America’s Poor? Examining the "Plague" of poverty in America
Robert Rector, Heritage Foundation, August 2007
Measuring Child Poverty
Department for Work and Pensions, December 2003
Is There Such a Thing as an Absolute Poverty Line Over Time? Evidence from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia on the Income Elasticity of the Poverty Line
Gordon M. Fisher, August 1995
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