In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

inform policy by complementing the analysis of standard macro-level measures of inequality and poverty with a household …-level analysis of subjective perceptions of poverty. We find that many more people appear to feel poor than are classified as such …