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There is widespread concern about the persistent nature of poverty. In recent times, poverty is often characterized as a way of life, or a "culture." There is concern that it has become a permanent rather than a temporary state, a condition from which individuals either cannot or will not escape. Other evidence suggests that the vast majority of persons whose incomes fall below the poverty line experience low incomes for only a short period of time. From a policy and a social perspective, the time dimension of poverty is an important one. Yet our current measures of poverty, from the Current Population Survey (CPS), give us no information about these issues. The dynamics of poverty are so complex however that this paper addresses only a portion of the entire issue.
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