Triest, Robert K. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (1998) 1, pp. 97-114
The official U.S. government figures showed an increase in the poverty rate from 11.1 percent in 1973 to 13.8 percent in 1995. However, some maintain that this upward trend is due to defects in the official poverty measure. This paper analyzes alternative measures of poverty and concludes that...