poverty guidelines

How Is The Poverty Threshold Determined?

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How Is The Poverty Threshold Determined? The Census Bureau determines poverty status by using an official poverty measure (OPM) that compares pre-tax cash income against a threshold that is set at three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963 and adjusted for family size. What is the poverty threshold based on? The

What Are The 4 Poverty Traps?

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What Are The 4 Poverty Traps? Collier attributes the extreme poverty of the fifty-eight countries that harbor the poorest billion individuals to one, or a combination, of four “traps”: a conflict trap, a natural resources trap, the trap of being landlocked with bad neighbors, and a poor governance trap. What is poverty trap? A poverty