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 …

anti-poverty effect on children than any existing government program, though at a higher cost per child raised above the … at all by at least $2,000 per child for most workers with children. Relying on elasticity estimates consistent with …) would increase maximum benefit amounts to $3,000 or $3,600 per child (up from $2,000 per child) and make the full credit …

This paper is the first to examine changes in poverty over time using a comprehensive set of linked survey and … Poverty. Using the Comprehensive Income Dataset (CID), we correct for measurement error in survey-reported incomes, focusing … on single parent families from 1995 to 2016. Our preferred estimates indicate that single parent family poverty declined …

Recent research suggests that rates of extreme poverty, commonly defined as living on less than $2/person/day, are high … and rising in the United States. We re-examine the rate of extreme poverty by linking 2011 data from the Survey of Income … and Program Participation and Current Population Survey, the sources of recent extreme poverty estimates, to …

Official poverty statistics and even the extreme poverty literature largely ignore people experiencing homelessness. In … people, this paper contributes to efforts to better incorporate this hard-to-survey population into income and poverty …

Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people … experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme poverty literature. This paper …