Given the current emphasis in national policy on self-reliance and a smaller role for government, the official poverty measure, which is based on the premise that all families should have sufficient income from either their own efforts or government support to boost them above a...

We construct estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being for Great Britain for the years 1995 and 2005. We also produce estimates of the official British measures HBAI (from the Department for Work and Pensions annual report titled Households below Average Income) and ROI...

The division of social security (OASI) benefits into an annuity portion and a transfer portion has been well documented. I have discussed this issue extensively in previous work (1987b, 1988, 1990, and forthcoming), as did Burkhauser and Warlick (1981) previously. My methodology is quite similar...