New Census Bureau proposes new poverty guidelines
The Census Bureau has proposed a change to the way it measures poverty in America. This would mean that nine million more Americans lived below the poverty last year than the year before. David Betson, associate professor of public policy and economics at Notre Dame, worked on the recommendations to extend the definition of poverty. He says that the measure should be changed in order to account for the current needs of citizens and the nature of how we meet those needs.
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