Ã…sa Mukhopadhyay; Shingler, John M.; Alter, Theodore R. - In: Poverty & Public Policy 3 (2011) 3, pp. 7-7
<p>Because the official U.S. poverty level is too low to adequately assess need for assistance among low income households, assistance agencies set eligibility levels to multiples of the poverty level, such as 125 or 150 percent. The Self Sufficiency Standard provides an alternative measurement...</p>
