of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

reductions in child poverty. This research note uses micro-data from more than 50 countries, and US data spanning more than 50 … years, to place the 2021 child poverty rate in historical and international perspective. We demonstrate that whether using … the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), relative poverty measures, or an absolute poverty measure, the US child poverty …

The objective of this paper is to distinguish between different types of working poverty, on the basis of the … mechanisms that produce it. Whereas the poverty literature identifies a myriad of risk factors and of categories of disadvantaged … workers, we focus on three immediate causes of working poverty, namely low wage rate, weak labour force attachment, and high …

Marriage and work have long been central to debates regarding poverty and the family. Although ample research … demonstrate their negative association with child poverty, both marriage and work have undergone major transformations over recent … decades. Consequently, it is plausible that their association with child poverty may have also changed. Using ten waves of U …