Kaushal, Neeraj; Fox, Liana; Garfinkel, Irwin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
poverty estimates based on the new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) from 1967 to 2012. During this period, poverty as … officially measured has stagnated. However, the official poverty measure (OPM) does not account for the effect of near … increasingly important part of government anti-poverty policy. Applying the SPM, which does count such transfers, we find that …
