Poverty Measurement
Two Generations in Poverty: Status and Trends among Parents and Children in the United States, 2000-2010
Child Trends and Ascend: The Family Economic Security Program at the Aspen Institute, November 2011
2011 Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Standard for California
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development, October 2011
The Crisis of Economic Insecurity for African-American and Latino Seniors
Tatjana Meschede, Laura Sullivan and Thomas Shapiro, Dēmos and the Institute on Assets & Social Policy, September 2011
Wisconsin Poverty Report: Were Antipoverty Policies Effective in 2009?
Joanna Y. Marks, Julia B. Isaacs, Timothy M. Smeeding and Katherine A. Thornton, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
May 2011
Policy Affects Poverty: The CEO Poverty Measure, 2005-2009
The NYC Center for Economic Opportunity, March 2011
Geographic Adjustments of Supplemental Poverty Measure
Thresholds: Using the American Community Survey Five-Year Data on Housing Costs
Trudi Renwick, U.S. Census Bureau, January 2011
Annual Update of the HHS Poverty
Guidelines
Department of Health and Human Services, January 2011
Progress toward Improving the U.S. Poverty Measure: Developing the New Supplemental Poverty Measure
David Johnson, Focus, Institute for Research on Poverty, Winter 2010
Improving the Measurement of Poverty
Social Service Review, March 2011
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Despite Deep Recession and High Unemployment, Government Efforts—Including the Recovery Act—Prevented Poverty from Rising in 2009
Arloc Sherman, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 2011
Another Look at Poverty in the Great Recession
Kathryn Anne Edwards and Elise Gould, Economic Policy Institute, January 2011
NAS-Based Poverty Measures
U.S. Census Bureau, January 2011
Who is Poor? A New Look with the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Kathleen S. Short, U.S. Census Bureau, December 2010
Income, Inequality, and Food Prices
Shawn Fremstad, Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2010
Impact of Modernizing the American Poverty Measure on the Poverty Status of Older Persons
AARP Public Policy Institute, November 2010
A Wealth of Data
The Economist, July 29, 2010
The CEO Poverty Measure, 2005--2008 (pdf)
Mark Levitan, Christine D'Onofrio, John Krampner, Daniel Scheer and Todd Seidel, New York City Center for Economic Opportunity, March 2010
What Gets Measured Gets Done: How a Supplemental Federal Poverty Measure Will Drive Smarter Policy (pdf)
Melissa Boteach and Jitinder Kohli, Center for American Progress, March 2010
It’s Time for a Better Poverty Measure (pdf)
Mark Greenberg, Center for American Progress, August 2009
Implications of a New Poverty Measure for Program Funding Formulas and Benefits Eligibility (pdf)
Mark Greenberg, Center for American Progress, August 2009
Center for Economic Opportunity: Early Achievements and Lessons Learned (pdf)
New York City Center for Economic Opportunity, April 2009
The Role of Prices in Measuring the Poor’s Living Standards
Christian Broda, Ephraim Leibtag and David E. Weinstein, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2009
Children in Immigrant Families -- The U.S. and 50 States: Economic Need Beyond the Official Poverty Measure (pdf)
Donald J. Hernandez, Nancy A. Denton and Suzanne Macartney, Child Trends and The Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, April 2009
The 2009 HHS Poverty Guidelines
United States Department of Health and Human Services, January 2009
Measuring Poverty and Economic Inclusion
Shawn Fremstad,Center for Economic and Policy Research, December 2008
Poverty in the U.S. and the UK: Relative Measurement and Relative Achievement Rebecca Schalb and Michael Wiseman, George Washington University, December 2008
Improving the Measurement of PovertyRebecca Blank and Mark Greenberg, The Hamilton Project, Brookings Institution, December 2008
The CEO Poverty Measure: A Working Paper (pdf) New York City Center for Economic Opportunity , August 2008
Measuring Poverty in the United StatesNancy K. Cauthen, Sarah Fass, National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, June 2008
Upward Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the United StatesBhashkar Mazumder,, The Economic Mobility Project, Pew Charitable Trusts
What We're In For: Projected Economic Impact of the Next RecessionJohn Schmitt and Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research, January 2008
Counting What Counts. (Opinion) Read ArticleDouglas W. Nelson, Washington Times, August, 2007
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Related to Poverty Guidelines and PovertyAssistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS, February 2007
How to Improve Poverty Measurement in the UnitedStatesRebecca M. Blank, University of Michigan and Brookings Institution, November 2007
National Academy of SciencesWorkshop 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 AmericaRobert 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 LineGordon M. Fisher, August 1995
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