How to Improve Poverty Measurement in the United States

By R. Blank. 2008

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A Measure Whose Time has Come: Formalizing Time Poverty (2016, background): “In the end, approaches that essentially set thresholds for multiple types of activities in a subsistence time budget are faced with the same difficulties of trying to establish an income poverty budget based on a particular market basket of goods (Blank 2008).”
Poverty and the American Family: A Decade in Review (2010, background): “Also, material hardship and consumption-based measures typically fail to consider how people satisfy material wants (e.g., families going into foreclosure to avoid hunger may not be counted as poor) and the quality of the goods consumed (Blank, 2008).”
Weakly Relative Poverty (2009, background): “(An exception is the official poverty line for the United States, which uses an absolute line; see Blank, 2008.)”