Rector, Robert; Johnson, Kirk; Youssef, Sarah - In: Review of Social Economy 57 (1999) 3, pp. 351-387
The Census Bureau has estimated the nation's annual poverty rate since 1963 using data from the Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted in March of each year. Census deems a household “poor” if annual income falls below specified income thresholds. There are two problems with this...