We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

To evaluate success in President Johnson's War on Poverty it is necessary to evaluate that success based on his … scientifically arbitrary but policy relevant terms of engagement. No existing poverty measure is capable of measuring its success. We … do so here by developing a Full-Income Poverty Measure (FPM) anchored to the Official Poverty Measure in 1963 …

offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …

Advocates of minimum wage increases have long touted their potential to reduce poverty. This study assesses this claim ….17 percent increase in the probability of longer-run poverty among all persons. With 95% confidence, we can rule out long …-run poverty elasticities with respect to the minimum wage of less than -0.129, which includes central poverty elasticities …

Minimum wage increases are not an effective mechanism for reducing poverty. And there is little causal evidence that … to reduce poverty. It raises only the after-tax wage rates of workers in low- and moderate-income families, the tax …

reducing poverty in old age. The transition from work to retirement is no longer economically perilous for the vast majority of … older American workers. For most married couples, the risk of falling into poverty even several years after retirement is … greatest risk of falling into poverty in old age now comes after the death of a spouse, as the survivor faces life after …