MATERIAL DEPRIVATION, THE ‘POVERTY RATE’ AND HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE IN MODERN AMERICA

Nicholas Eberstadt

Economic Affairs, 2007, vol. 27, issue 3, 15-23

Abstract: The official US ‘poverty rate’ appears to be a problematic descriptor of poverty trends and levels. Reported results from the ‘poverty rate’ do not track well with other indicators that would ordinarily be expected to bear directly on living conditions. Over the past 30 years, the relationship between the official poverty rate and these other indicators has been perversely discordant. This article outlines the basis of the poverty rate and the problems it now encounters as a reliable measure of material deprivation.

Date: 2007
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