Drawing the Line: Alternative Poverty Measures and Their Implications for Public Policy.

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Abstract

The official U.S. poverty measures were adopted in the late 1960s and were based on data from the mid-1950s. This book argues for a reevaluation of the experts' consensus on where we draw the poverty line.

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