O'Grady, Michael J. (ed.); Wunderlich, Gooloo S. (ed.) - 2012
services. One might expect that the U.S. poverty measure would capture these financial effects and trends in them over time …. Yet the current official poverty measure developed in the early 1960s does not take into account significant increases and … rates of medical financial stress and debt, the current poverty measure does not capture the consequences for families …
