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Issues in Economics Today
Issues in Economics Today
Robert Guell, Indiana State University

Poverty and Welfare

Web-Based Issues Questions

Question 26.1

Click on this article

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html

Peruse this site stopping specifically at “How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty” and the “Poverty Thresholds.” Look also at some of the “Recent Poverty Measurement Research.” Comment on the question “Does the current measure of poverty yield useful information or is the measure so fundamentally flawed that a new one must be used?”

Question 26.2

Click on this article

http://www.centeronbudget.org/1-22-02tanf2.htm

Comment on what the article suggests about the success of welfare reform in getting single mothers to work and whether these women are better off as a result.





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