study explores the effects of financial transfers on poverty rates using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to … understand the role of public and private transfers on poverty reduction in the United States and France. This study analyzes … poverty outcomes based on (i) market income (income prior to taxes and transfers), (ii) market income plus public transfers …

This review explains how and why the U.S. has systemically high poverty. Descriptive evidence shows U.S. poverty is: (a … poverty: (i) behavioral explanations "fixing the poor"; (ii) emotive compassion "dramatizing the poor"; and (iii) cultural … of the poor towards political explanations of poverty. …

the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 … and zero incomes and assesses the distributional impacts of alternative correction methods on poverty and inequality … materially deprived. Adjusting poverty and inequality measures for these findings can alter these measures significantly. …

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 …