Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago - 2009
This Paper examines poverty in the United States from 1960 through 2005. We investigate how poverty rates and poverty … rates often indicate large declines, even in recent years when income poverty rates have risen. We show that bias in the CPI … differences, particularly in recent years, between different income poverty measures, and between income and consumption poverty …