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A critical factor explaining recent changes in overall poverty was the availability—and then the expiration—of temporary benefits provided in response to the pandemic.
The post Putting This Year's Poverty Numbers in Context, Part I appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Policymakers and the public are in dire need of a poverty measure that remedies the well-known flaws of both the Official Poverty Measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure. It should not be this complicated to assess how poverty changes year to year and why.
The post Putting This Year's Poverty Numbers in Context, Part II appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.