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TitleThe Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure: A New Method for Measuring Poverty
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PublisherBrookings Institute
DateMarch 2022
Pages88 pp.
DescriptionExamines a new method for measuring poverty in the United States,based on families’ spending and easily accessible resources, finds that about eight million more people lived in poverty in 2019 than reported by the government’s conventional income-based approach.
Filed inEconomy > Economic opportunity
TopicsEconomy, Education
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Updated03/28/2023 01:37pm

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