Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with … about income poverty in the United States is largely silent about disability. This paper argues that we need to have a … broader view of what poverty is and also that disability must be taken into account in anti-poverty policy. …

This report examines the current U.S. poverty measure and finds that it has failed to keep up with public consensus on … adopted. Moreover, the NAS approach results in a poverty measure that would remain far below the public’s get-along level …. This report concludes by suggesting a truly new approach that the incoming Administration should adopt- a “tiered” poverty …

This report details how the dominant framework for understanding and measuring poverty in the United States has become … a conservative one. The current U.S. approach to measuring poverty views poverty only in terms of having an extremely … low level of annual income, and utilizes poverty thresholds that are adjusted only for inflation rather than for changes …

contradicted by the best available data (in fact these data show a reduction in inequality). His claim that the amount of poverty … clearly wrong; in fact, Venezuela's poverty reduction has been much better than the vast majority of countries for the amount …

recession in 2008. The report finds that such a recession would result in a significant rise in unemployment and the poverty …

measure of living standards; Mexico’s poverty rate of in 2012 was almost identical to the poverty rate of 1994; real …