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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. : Lanham, MD :
Urban Institute Press ; Distributed by University Press of America,
©1990.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xvi, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-199). |
| ISBN: | 0877664471 9780877664475 0877664463 9780877664468 |