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Coonoor Behal

Census shows 1 in 2 people are poor or low-income - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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low-income supplementalmeasure

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  • About 97.3 million Americans fall into a low-income category, commonly defined as those earning between 100 and 199 percent of the poverty level, based on a new supplemental measure by the Census Bureau that is designed to provide a fuller picture of poverty. Together with the 49.1 million who fall below the poverty line and are counted as poor, they number 146.4 million, or 48 percent of the U.S. population. That is up by 4 million from 2009, the earliest numbers for the newly developed poverty measure.
  • Among low-income families, about one-third were considered poor while the remainder, 6.9 million, earned income just above the poverty line.
Coonoor Behal

http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acsbr10-17.pdf - 2 views

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    • Coonoor Behal
      Coonoor Behal on 26 Nov 12
       
      Why aren't poverty thresholds different based on cost of living across different states and cities? Does it make sense for the poverty threshold in NYC to be the same as Boise?
    • Vetan Kapoor
      Vetan Kapoor on 28 Nov 12
       
      Good point. My guess would be that the poverty line is calculated based on some basket of goods deemed vital to function at a basic level, and that most of these goods are within a fairly narrow price range (food, clothing etc.). Also the highest expenditures are probably in rent/housing (30-50% of income) and for low income folks these should be pretty comparable giving housing vouchers and other HUD type assistance?
  • Coonoor Behal on 26 Nov 12
     
    "People living in poverty tend to be clustered in certain neighborhoods rather than being evenly distributed across geographic areas."
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  • Coonoor Behal on 26 Nov 12
     
    "...living in areas with many other poor people places burdens on low-income families beyond what the families' own individual circumstances would dictate."
  • Coonoor Behal on 26 Nov 12
     
    "some government programs target resources to communities with concentrated poverty. Many of these programs use the Census Bureau's definition of "poverty areas" (census tracts with poverty rates of 20 percent or more)"
  • Coonoor Behal on 26 Nov 12
     
    "the South had a larger proportion of people (27.4 percent) living in poverty areas than any other region, followed by the West (21.6 percent)."
  • Coonoor Behal on 26 Nov 12
     
    "Nearly half (49.0 percent) of the 10.3 million people residing in category IV tracts lived in poverty, while a little more than a quarter (27.3 percent) of the 56.6 million in category III were in poverty."
  • Coonoor Behal on 26 Nov 12
     
    "More than one-half of the families in categories I, II, and III were married-couple families while only 43.2 percent of families in category IV tracts were married couples. Female householder families represented about 14 percent of families in category I tracts, but 46.2 percent of families in category IV tracts."
  • Coonoor Behal on 26 Nov 12
     
    "The poverty thresholds are updated annually to allow for changes in the cost of living using the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U). They do not vary geographically."
Coonoor Behal

Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2011 (Census report) - 0 views

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SPM census measurement

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  • Coonoor Behal on 15 Feb 13
     
    Good table comparing/contrasting what the official poverty measure measures and what the SPM measures
Coonoor Behal

In the Fight Against Poverty, Time for a Revolution - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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povertyprograms povertyassessment methods

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  • United States Census bureau has produced what may become another landmark reference. Based on an updated method for assessing poverty, the bureau has found that far more Americans are scraping by than was previously known: 100 million Americans — one in three — are “deep poor,” “poor,” or “near poor.”
  • As Harrington observed, poverty is more than lacking minimum standards of health care, housing, food and education. “Poverty,” he wrote, “should be defined psychologically in terms of those whose place in the society is such that they are internal exiles who, almost inevitably, develop attitudes of defeat and pessimism and who are therefore excluded from taking advantage of new opportunities.”
  • Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed tools to measure “well-being,” looking at such things as material goods, relationships and self-beliefs.
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  • But there is a problem: the system of social services that has been built up over past generations isn’t designed to increase poor people’s “capacity to aspire” and pursue their goals. Social services aren’t treated as part of an integrated process of human development. Just the opposite. Services are fragmented and clients are regularly shunted from agency to agency. Caseworkers serving people who are applying for public benefits don’t have the time, or the discretion, to get to know their clients, let alone brainstorm with them about problem solving.
  • Many Americans struggling in poverty today need more than financial assistance; they need help figuring out how to plug into a changing economy.
  • LIFT’s approach is grounded in the principle that change happens through relationships.
  • LIFT has spent more than a decade systematizing what amounts to a social technology.
  • They have looked closely at the human qualities required to address poverty. Above all, LIFT looks for volunteers who have demonstrated empathy.
  • Advocates are trained to treat clients with courtesy, to value their time, and to listen to their stories (while maintaining clear boundaries).
  • “Being treated politely is for many people a new experience.”
  • In fact, LIFT is seeing more people in the “near poor” or “newly poor” category.
Vetan Kapoor

Poverty: 2010 and 2011 (ACS) - 1 views

www.census.gov/...acsbr11-01.pdf

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  • Coonoor Behal on 26 Nov 12
     
    "Among large metropolitan areas, poverty rates ranged from 8.3 percent to 37.7 percent in the 2011 ACS."
  • Vetan Kapoor on 28 Nov 12
     
    A lot of good stats from the 2010 Census report on geography of poverty, as well as race and child vs. adult stuff, which I read in the foreword to the Harrington book. I'm typing up key notes from each chapter and will post here or google docs once done.
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