The poverty of "the poverty rate"
Subtitle: measure and mismeasure of want in modern America
By: by Nicholas Eberstadt.
Publisher: The AEI Press; AEI Press; Distributed to the trade by National Book Network
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780844742465
Subjects: Poverty -- United States; Poor -- United States; Income distribution -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: What is the official poverty rate, and what does it actually measure?; title: Poverty trends in modern America, according to the official poverty rate; title: The official poverty rate versus other statistical indicators bearing on material deprivation in America; title: Systematic differences between income and expenditures among poorer households in modern America; title: Accounting for the widening reported gap between income and consumption for lower-income Americans; title: Trends in living standards for low-income Americans; title: Conclusion : wanted, new poverty measure(s) in modern America.