Presidential address: How to improve poverty measurement in the United States

Author: Atkinson, Atkinson, Bavier, Bernstein, Bernstein, Betson, Citro, Department for Work and Pensions, European Commission, Fisher, Gabe, Hagenaars, Haveman, Iceland, Jencks, Jones, Meyer, Nolan, Notten, Rector, Renwick, Ruggles, Sen, Smeeding, Smeeding, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce, Education, and Welfare U.S. Department of Health, U.S. Department of Labor, Vaughn, Weinberg
Publisher: Wiley

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This paper discusses the reasons why the current official U.S. poverty measure is outdated and nonresponsive to many anti-poverty initiatives. A variety of efforts to update and improve the statistic have failed, for political, technical, and institutional reasons. Meanwhile, the European Union is taking a very different approach to poverty measurement. The paper ends with four recommended steps that would allow the U.S. to improve its measurement of poverty and economic need.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/58071/1/20323_ftp.pd

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