on trends in income and consumption-based poverty measures in the United States. …

More than half of all misclassified households have incomes from the administrative data above the poverty line, and … contrast, the households kept from extreme poverty by in-kind transfers appear to be among the most materially deprived …

While annual poverty rates and monthly unemployment figures are useful, from a policy perspective, it matters whether … individuals experience poverty and unemployment for short periods of time or persistently. …

analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and … inequality statistics, but provide evidence that our qualitative conclusions are likely to apply to other surveys. We link … also greatly understates the effects of anti-poverty programs and changes our understanding of program targeting, often …