The U.S. measure of poverty is an important social indicator that affects not only public perceptions of well-being in America, but also public policies and programs. The current measure was ...

On September 14th, the Census Bureau will report the official poverty rate for 2020. In a typical year the poverty rate receives widespread attention as a key indicator of well-being in the United ...

In this post I discuss the policy implications of declaring the Supplemental Poverty Measure the new official measure, an action that could be taken unilaterally by the Director of the Office of ...

Defining poverty is more than a “definitional trick” (“Will Biden Cross a Line on Poverty?” by Kevin Corinth, op-ed, May 23). Measuring economic poverty involves estimating a basic-needs budget or ...

Math, unfortunately for some of us, matters. And numbers, unfortunately for all of us, can mislead. For example, President Biden’s recent $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” was sold as a COVID-19 ...

The measure of poverty in the United States, a basic basket of essential food items, hasn't changed in almost 60 years. One other stop we need to make before we delve into a look back at the look back ...

Comparing economies and poverty is challenging, as different measures can lead to different results. Olivier Sterck, an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, has developed a ...

Wonder Land: Citing the president’s age lets Democrats off the hook for the political failure of his economic policies. Images: AP/AFP/EPA/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly The credibility of the ...

This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation. Read all of our Day One Agenda articles here. It’s often cited that four out of ten ...

I’m no fan of the American Enterprise Institute, the D.C. policy shop that harbors Michael “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it ...

In the panel's primary focus on the measurement of poverty in the United States, we discuss the rationale for, and the measurement of, a concept of poverty based on the lack of family resources needed ...