contradicted by the best available data (in fact these data show a reduction in inequality). His claim that the amount of poverty … clearly wrong; in fact, Venezuela's poverty reduction has been much better than the vast majority of countries for the amount …

This report details how the dominant framework for understanding and measuring poverty in the United States has become … a conservative one. The current U.S. approach to measuring poverty views poverty only in terms of having an extremely … low level of annual income, and utilizes poverty thresholds that are adjusted only for inflation rather than for changes …

this, a clear template emerges for understanding poverty and alleviating it. …

poverty among individuals within the same family structure. Background: Family structure is a dominant explanation for racial … inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an “individual-level” variable results in relatively less attention to the role of … structure intersect in the context of poverty. Method: We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the American Community …