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Drawing the Line: Alternative Poverty Measures and Their Implications for Public Policy.
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Rainwater, L., & Ruggles, P.
- Venue
- Contemporary Sociology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1991-05
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 444
- ISSN
- 0094-3061 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2068880073
- Cited by
- 342
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 51.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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