In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast …-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income … poverty measure, widely cited in the media, uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the CPS and other …

the last decade, but the benefits of this are being distributed unevenly. Poverty rates are higher than in any OECD … population with poverty and employment rates similar to those of OECD countries. On the other, there are Arabs and ultra … of Arab and Haredim families live in poverty. Almost half of all children entering primary school in Israel come from one …