U.S. Department of Commerce

Estimates of Poverty 1979 to 1987

These reports describe experimental procedures for valuing noncash benefits received by the low-income population and present estimates of the effect of these benefits on the size and composition of the poverty population.

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division
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