The Poverty of "The Poverty Rate": Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America by Nicholas Eberstadt

The Poverty of "The Poverty Rate": Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America

Nicholas Eberstadt

175 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
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Since its inception in 1965, America's official poverty rate (OPR) has been the single most important statistic used by policymakers and concerned citizens to evaluate success or failure in the nation's ongoing struggle against material need. But ...

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