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Has Poverty Gotten Worse?

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Triest, Robert K

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The official U.S. government figures showed an increase in the poverty rate from 11.1 percent in 1973 to 13.8 percent in 1995. However, some maintain that this upward trend is due to defects in the official poverty measure. This paper analyzes alternative measures of poverty and concludes that nearly all reasonable alternatives show similar trends in poverty over the recent past. There has been an increase in the percentage of people in the United States who are poor, although one can argue that the official Census figures either understate or somewhat overstate the increase. Copyright 1998 by American Economic Association.

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Volume (Year): 12 (1998)
Issue (Month): 1 (Winter)
Pages: 97-114
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  1. Rebecca M. Blank & Alan S. Blinder, 1985. "Macroeconomics, Income Distribution, and Poverty," NBER Working Papers 1567, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  7. Ian Irvine & Kuan Xu, 2002. "Crime, Punishment and Poverty in the United States," Department of Economics at Dalhousie University working papers archive uspov, Dalhousie, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  8. R. Haveman & A. Bershadker, . "The “Inability to Be Self-Reliant” as an Indicator of Poverty: Trends in the United States, 1975–1995," Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers 1171-98, University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty. [Downloadable!]
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