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New estimates of poverty in the US for the period 1959 through 1975 have been calculated by revising the official income data to include the value of in-kind transfers. The method presented here "cashes out" & distributes the benefits from food stamps, rent supplements, public housing, medicaid-medicare, & other need-based, nonmoney transfer programs. Presented are new estimates of the poverty population based on the net real income of US households. This contrasts with the official statistics, which are based exclusively on money income; this is too narrow a definition at a time when over 60% of the need-based transfer budget represents in-kind or nonmoney aid to the poor. The official poverty series is compared with the new series based on post-in-kind-transfer income. The official statistics indicate that the number of persons in poverty during the last decade has remained around 25 million. Yet this was a period of great expansion in public programs to aid the poor. This seeming contradiction is explained by the revised poverty series which shows that poverty has sharply declined to about 6 million persons or 3% of the population. 4 Tables, 1 Chart. AA.

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