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Mark Greenberg shows why the federal poverty measure is flawed and how it can be updated.
Report from Mark Greenberg discusses how a new measure of poverty would affect funding formulas and benefits eligibility.
Policymakers should modernize the poverty measure. The current guideline does not take into account key provisions in the stimulus package such as the creation of a Making Work Pay Tax Credit and the expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
House recovery legislation goes further than the Senate on revising the Child Tax Credit and would bring help to 12 million low-income children, writes Mark Greenberg.
Mark Greenberg and Rebecca Blank recommend the adoption of a new poverty measure, along the lines recommended by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), in order to provide a more accurate measure of economic need in the United States.
The latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau detail the lack of any progress against poverty since 2000, write Mark Greenberg and Lisa Donner.
New data shows U.S. has moved backward on health care and poverty since 2000; CAP experts offer solutions for getting back on track.
Mark Greenberg, Director of CAP's Task Force on Poverty, testifies to Congress on why the method for measuring poverty should be updated.
Newly-released data from the Census Bureau shows a serious erosion of income and health care security for working Americans.