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Measuring America: Poverty: The History of a Measure

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Sources and Reference

U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 1960 to 2013 Annual Social and Economic Supplements

Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2012.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Base Thresholds

Gordon M. Fisher, "The Development of History of the Poverty Thresholds," Social Security Bulletin, Vol 55, No. 4, Winter 1992, for the history of the official poverty measure presented here

 

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