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Brookings: Time to Change How We Measure Poverty? Evaluating Alternate Poverty Measures
June 9, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Brookings is hosting a webcast on Time to Change How We Measure Poverty? Evaluating Alternate Poverty Measures on Wednesday, June 9th, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM.
The official poverty rate is one of the most closely tracked government statistics used to evaluate progress in improving the circumstances of disadvantaged Americans. However, the measure suffers from widely recognized flaws, and more than 25 years have passed since the last major effort to recommend improvements. A two-year federal government effort to advance the next generation of poverty measurement recently concluded and published its final consensus report in January 2021.
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