Experimental poverty measurement for the 1990s (ABSTRACT), Monthly Labor Review Online, Mar. 1998

Experimental poverty measurement for the 1990s

Thesia I. Garner, Kathleen Short,Stephanie Shipp, Charles Nelson, and Geoffrey Paulin

Recently, a National Academy of Sciences Panel made recommendations for a revised poverty measure. When implemented in a test environment, these recommendations yield a poverty population that looks more like the general population, in that the poor are more likely to be white, to be married, and to have a family member in the labor force. This article tests the Panel's basic procedure and examines additional Panel recommendations to contruct an additional, "experimental" poverty measure.

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