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Book Cover for: Supplemental Poverty Measure: A Comparison of Geographic Adjustments with Regional Price Parities vs. Median Rents from the American Community Surve, U. S. Census Bureau

Supplemental Poverty Measure: A Comparison of Geographic Adjustments with Regional Price Parities vs. Median Rents from the American Community Surve

U. S. Census Bureau

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One of the innovations of the Supplemental Poverty Measure is to make adjustments in the official poverty threshold to account for geographic price level differences, particularly for differences in the cost of shelter as measured by rents. A more recent initiative is to estimate thresholds that include price differences for goods and services other than rents. The focus in this paper is to compare two types of geographic adjustments: one based on the ACS median rent index (MRI), and one based on a recently published set of state and metropolitan regional price parities (RPPs). The RPPs are of two types: an all item index that includes a broad group of expenditure classes and another that is more narrowly focused on just food, clothing and rents. The differences between the MRI and the all item RPPs are significant for most states, resulting in higher poverty rates for 15 states and lower rates for 26 states. When the narrower RPPs are used, poverty estimates are higher than the MRI poverty rates in 20 states, lower in 22 states and not statistically different in 9 states. In metropolitan areas, the overall RPPs lower the poverty rates when compared to the MRI, because differences in the combined price level of goods and services are generally not as large as differences in rents. When the RPPs are constrained to food, clothing and rents, the poverty rates in metropolitan areas are greater than the MRI poverty rates.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: Jan 15th, 2015
  • Pages: 30
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 11.00in - 8.50in - 0.06in - 0.21lb
  • EAN: 9781507566992
  • Categories: • Public Policy - Cultural Policy

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“If we look at Census Bureau data for 2020 & 2021, we actually see a significant decline in child poverty of about 46% using the Supplemental Poverty Measure and that is primarily due to the large pandemic safety net programs.” - @aparnamath #childpoverty #povertyawareness #ctc

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"Adults 65 and older are the only age group in the country that saw an uptick in the poverty rate last year, from 9.5% in 2020 to 10.7% in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure..." https://t.co/h5MNGKRcNJ

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"While the Census Bureau updates the Supplemental Poverty Measure and the official #poverty measure each year, the @AECFNews is an advocate for using the SPM as it accounts for a broader range of family resources " https://t.co/Z9K63zdD5F https://t.co/g0PPljdVUo

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Mentioner image for: Spotlight on Poverty
Spotlight on Poverty
@povertynews
2 years

Daily poverty news and commentaries from across the political spectrum. Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://t.co/yhMxbfkJk7

“If we look at Census Bureau data for 2020 & 2021, we actually see a significant decline in child poverty of about 46% using the Supplemental Poverty Measure and that is primarily due to the large pandemic safety net programs.” - @aparnamath #childpoverty #povertyawareness #ctc

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Stacey Ma Dukes Hopkins
@staceyhopkinsga
2 years

I was here under my own terms, and I knew I had no power to influence except the power to say no. - Sidney Poitier

"Adults 65 and older are the only age group in the country that saw an uptick in the poverty rate last year, from 9.5% in 2020 to 10.7% in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure..." https://t.co/h5MNGKRcNJ

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