Minimum wage increases are not an effective mechanism for reducing poverty. And there is little causal evidence that … to reduce poverty. It raises only the after-tax wage rates of workers in low- and moderate-income families, its tax …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

To evaluate success in President Johnson's War on Poverty it is necessary to evaluate that success based on his … scientifically arbitrary but policy relevant terms of engagement. No existing poverty measure is capable of measuring its success. We … do so here by developing a Full-Income Poverty Measure (FPM) anchored to the Official Poverty Measure in 1963 …

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

estimate the combined impact of such insulating behavior on poverty in various developing countries and globally. The analysis … finds that the actual poverty-reducing impact of insulation is much less than its apparent impact, and that its net effect … was to increase global poverty in 2008 by 8 million people, although this increase was not significantly different from …

Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in … poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum … wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A better tool for reducing poverty, and at lower cost, is the earned …