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Ssec: How Can a Family Be in Poverty and Not Be Poor? [Pdf]
This investigation helps students examine issues related to measuring poverty. Is reducing poverty an appropriate economic role for government? How do you measure poverty? What is not examined when measuring poverty? What are alternative...
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Us Health & Human Services: Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement
This site from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services provides resources on both poverty threshold and poverty guidelines, and describes how they are used by federal programs for setting eligibility criteria.
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Health & Human Services: Development and History of u.s. Poverty Thresholds
A review of the development and history of the current, official poverty thresholds.
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U.s. Dept. Of Health and Human Services: Absolute Poverty Line
At this site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, using evidence from U.S., Britain, Canada, and Australia, this paper argues that absolute poverty lines rise as the real income rises. (Published Sept. 1995)