Measuring Poverty: A New Approach

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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.

The project that is the subject of this report was administered under a contract with the Bureau of the Census of the U.S. Department of Commerce, with funding from the Administration for Children and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor. The Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture also provided funding to the Committee on National Statistics for the project.

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