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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