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How Does the US Measure Poverty? A Child-Focused Perspective

The National Center for Children in Poverty has a 2008 fact sheet that outlines how the federal poverty measurement works, why it is inadequate and examines alternative ways to measure poverty—and child poverty—more effectively.



Source URL:
http://www.connectforkids.org/node/6710