What makes someone poor? Among those who study poverty, the answer has long been a lack of money. If your income falls below a certain level, you’re poor. Researchers study extreme poverty and chronic ...

C. Nicole Mason is a political scientist and the executive director of the Women of Color Policy Network at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She wrote this for ...

New metric to measure poverty Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released a long-promised alternative method for measuring who’s officially considered poor and who isn’t. The old approach, established 50 ...

This article originally appeared on The Philadelphia Inquirer. The U.S. Census Bureau erred in calculating a major national poverty measure — the second mistake reported by the bureau in the last ...

New York City officials have declared an ambitious campaign against poverty, but they must also put together a fuller picture of the effects of poverty in the city, according to Lawrence Aber, a ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa | Roughly 70,000 fewer Iowans were living in poverty for the three-year period between 2009 and 2011 under an alternative method the government is using to measure economic well being.

Methods commonly used to measure poverty can lead to vastly different conclusions about who actually lives in poverty, according to a new Stanford University–led study. Based on household surveys in ...

Benoit Decerf, Kike Fonton, Sharpening the Welfare-Consistency of the Mainstream Multidimensional Poverty Identification Method, with Illustration on Nigerian Data, The World Bank Economic Review, ...

Oregon State University researchers have developed a new method of measuring poverty across Oregon. The researchers say their method measures the impact of social safety programs on poverty. It also ...

July 13 (UPI) --In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared war on poverty: "The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it," he told Congress in his first State of the Union address. "We ...