on trends in income and consumption-based poverty measures in the United States. …

Meyer and Sullivan examine income inequality between 1963 and 2014 using the Current Population Survey and consumption …

from the Current Population Survey and consumption data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. This new evidence on the … poverty, examining alternative income poverty and consumption poverty, which have conceptual and empirical advantages as … measures of the well-being of the poor. We find that both income and consumption poverty are sensitive to macroeconomic …