Drawing the line : alternative poverty measures and their implications for public policy /

The US official poverty measures were adopted in the late 1960s and, even then, were based on data from the mid-1950s. This book argues for a reevaluation of the experts' consensus on where we draw the poverty line.

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Main Author: Ruggles, Patricia
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Lanham, MD : Urban Institute Press ; Distributed by University Press of America, ©1990.
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Bemidji State University

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Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Minnesota State University Moorhead

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Minnesota Legislative Reference Library

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