inflation, strong real wage growth, and low rate of unemployment in the U.S. economy during the late 1990s. Many of these … univariate trends in the unemployment rate and in the rate of productivity growth, these coefficients are stable. This suggests … explanations of movements of wages, prices and unemployment over the 1990s, and indeed over the past forty years, must focus on …

We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on … the minimum bundle necessary to meet basic needs. Our measure differs from conventional income and consumption poverty in … both concept and measurement and it has advantages relative to both. Poverty rates using our basic measure are very close …

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 …

place and compare them to the poverty line, manufacturing earnings and benefits, state per capita incomes in the US, as well …

This paper presents new estimates of the level and persistence of poverty among U.S. households since the Great … track individuals over time and measure how tax policies affect poverty trends. Using an after-tax household income measure …, we estimate that while roughly 1 in 10 people are in poverty in any given year, over 4 in 10 people spent at least one …