in the paper, providing an income guarantee for all elderly individuals that is equal to the poverty line, increases … substantially greater effects on poverty if participation rates were increased …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …

used to assess economic well-being and poverty rates. Yet, because households can use wealth to consume more than income … use data from the Health and Retirement Study to find income-based poverty rates which we compare with poverty rates as … measured in the Current Population Survey. We use HRS consumption data to calculate a consumption-based poverty rate and study …

wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …

We use data from the March 1968-2001 Current Population Surveys to document the evolution of elderly poverty over this … time period, and to assess the causal role of the Social Security program in reducing poverty rates. We develop an … elderly poverty. Our findings suggest that over all elderly families the elasticity of poverty to benefits is roughly unitary …

political debate surrounding poverty. Policy changes included a radical shift in welfare policy, a sizable expansion in supports … plummeted, work rose dramatically among single parents, and poverty was reduced. At the same time, there are indications that …

Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …