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Measuring Poverty: Do the Proposed Revisions of the Poverty Measure Matter for Rural America?

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  • Nord, Mark
  • Cook, Peggy

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Proposed changes in poverty measurement methods would lower the nonmetro poverty rate by 3 percentage points and raise the metro poverty rate by 1 percentage point. The resulting nonmetro poverty rate would be lower than the metro rate, reversing the historic rural poverty gap. Measured poverty would decline by 4 percentage points in the nonmetro South and by more than 10 percentage points for nonmetro blacks. The adjustment for cost of housing accounts for most of the metro-nonmetro difference between the current and proposed measures.

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  • Nord, Mark & Cook, Peggy, 1995. "Measuring Poverty: Do the Proposed Revisions of the Poverty Measure Matter for Rural America?," Staff Reports 278786, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerssr:278786
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.278786
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    1. repec:rre:publsh:v:35:y:2005:i:3:p:291-310 is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Shawn Fremstad, 2010. "A Modern Framework for Measuring Poverty and Basic Economic Security," CEPR Reports and Issue Briefs 2010-12, Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR).
    3. Jolliffe, Dean, 2006. "The Cost of Living and the Geographic Distribution of Poverty," Economic Research Report 7254, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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