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Poverty
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Is poverty getting better or worse?
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Is there more of it here or there?
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These important policy questions are difficult to answer with confidence.
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For valid public policy reasons, governments try to measure poverty rates
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But the meaning of poverty is subject to change over time and by place.
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The oldest data series is the "core" poverty rate
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A newer (and better) series is the "supplemental measure of poverty" (SMP).
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Data series for this information is available from the Census bureau.
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Data we use for Ed100 tends to be state-level
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More "real" data is based on regional data.
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In Lesson 2.2 we present data from Table B-5:
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https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-280.html
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This is a three-year average figure, by state
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Federal aid during the Pandemic significantly (but temporarily) reduced poverty as measured by SMP in California and elsewhere.
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