Chairman Smith, Subcommittee Chairman LaHood, Ranking Member Davis, and distinguished members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify. I am Bruce Meyer, McCormick Foundation ...

New metric to measure poverty Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a long-promised alternative method for measuring who’s officially considered poor and who isn’t. The old approach, established 50 ...

The Commerce Department plans to announce development of the first new definition of poverty since the 1960s. But, it will only be supplemental. When it's released next Fall, the new gauge will ...

On Tuesday the Census Bureau is scheduled to release income and poverty statistics for 2022. It’s safe to say that the report will be hard to interpret. Last year, the two poverty measures released by ...

Poverty in the U.S. The number of Americans struggling to get by has increased in the past few years. The U.S. Census Bureau produces annual poverty estimates to measure the economic well-being of ...

Stanford researchers quantified the cost of lifting people out of poverty globally, providing a framework to inform future policy decisions.

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 ...

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 ...

5 September - Around the world, over 800 million people live in extreme poverty and 1.1 billion people are still living in multidimensional poverty. As part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

WASHINGTON - The ranks of poor edged up last year to a high of 49.7 million, based on a new census measure that takes into account medical costs and work-related expenses. The numbers released ...

This chapter presents our analysis of the difference it would make to poverty statistics to adopt the proposed measure in place of the current measure. This analysis has several objectives: to ...