A Modern Framework for Measuring Poverty and Basic Economic Security

CEPR

A US study proposing a new framework for measuring poverty and basic economic security in the United States. Instead of being limited to the “extremely-low-income-only” approach the current poverty line and administration’s proposed Supplemental Income Poverty Measure (SIPM) represent, this framework should utilize measures of low income and other forms of economic hardship related to low income

Shawn Fremstad

Poverty & Hunger , Social Policy Posted: 2010-04-27

A Modern Framework for Measuring Poverty and Basic Economic Security