Communication Are Children Worse Off'? Evaluating Well-Being Using a New (and Improved) Measure of Poverty

• Main Authors: John Iceland, Kathleen Short, Thesia I. Garner, David Johnson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: Kathleen; Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.232.5917; http://stats.bls.gov/pir/journal/gt06.pdf

Although child poverty rates continue to surpass those of others, there is growing consensus that current official poverty measure has become outdated and flawed. Using data from the Current Population Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation, we implement an experimental poverty me...