A Qualitative Census of Rural and Urban Poverty

J. Trent Alexander, Robert Andersen, Peter W. Cookson, Kathryn Edin, Jonathan Fisher, David B. Grusky, Marybeth Mattingly and Charles Varner

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2017, vol. 672, issue 1, 143-161

Abstract: If we want to build authentic evidence-based policy, we need a strong descriptive foundation of evidence on the everyday experience of poverty. The National Poverty Study (NPS), which is currently in development, provides this foundation with a new “qualitative census†of the everyday conditions of poverty in rural, suburban, and urban sites. The NPS will allow us to build new evidence-based theories of poverty, evaluate and improve existing place-based antipoverty policies, validate official poverty measures, and assist local communities in improving the safety net for vulnerable populations.

Keywords: poverty; qualitative research; everyday life; census (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716217714156

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