Search Results for: The Supplemental Poverty Measure

An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population and to assess the effects of

We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on expenditure in the Consumer Expenditure sur

One of the innovations of the Supplemental Poverty Measure is to make adjustments in the official poverty threshold to account for geographic price level differ

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn hel