Caner, Asena (contributor); Wolff, Edward N. (contributor) - 2004
include wealth as well as income. Their study of asset poverty in the United States between 1984 and 1999 focuses on the lower …Economic growth and a rising stock market in the 1990s gave the impression that everyone was accumulating wealth and … asset poverty rates were declining. The impression was supported by the official, income-based poverty measure, which …