Gill, Indermit S.; Dixon, Eric L. - 2021
This paper is one of three country studies of successful anti-poverty measures during upper middle-income levels, the … other two being Japan and the Republic of Korea. Though the US did not advance an explicit anti-poverty agenda until the … earnings all increased during 1920-1960. Poverty fell by two-thirds to around 22 percent as the mean income rose and income …