Additional Information
Congressional Testimony
- Measuring American Poverty (pdf)
Statement of Bruce D. Meyer, before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means, July 17, 2008.
National, State, and Local SPM Estimates
- U.S. Poverty Estimates
Improving the Measurement of Poverty
Nathan Hutto, Jane Waldfogel, Neerej Kaushal, and Irv Garfinkel, Columbia University, 2010 - Minnesota Poverty Estimates
Measuring Poverty at the State Level
Sheila Zedlewski, Linda Giannarelli, Laura Wheaton, and Joyce Morton, Urban Institute, 2010. - New York City Poverty Estimates
The CEO Measure of Poverty (pdf)
New York City, Center for Economic Opportunity, 2008. - The CEO Poverty Measure, 2005-2008 (pdf)
Mark Levitan, Christine D’Onofrio, John Krampner, Daniel Scheer and Todd Seidel
New York City, Center for Economic Opportunity, 2010. - New York State Poverty Estimates
How Many New Yorkers Are Poor and Where Do They Live: Development of a National Academy of Sciences Poverty Measure for New York State
New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, 2010. - Wisconsin Poverty Estimates
The Wisconsin Poverty Report: Methodology and Results for 2008 (pdf)
Julia Isaacs, Joanna Marks, Timothy Smeeding, Katherine Thornton, University of Wisconsin, 2010.
Other Alternative Poverty Measurement Proposals
NAS Reports on Measuring Poverty
- Measuring Poverty 1995 Report
Constance F. Citro and Robert T. Michael, National Academy Press, 1995. - Experimental Poverty Measures: Summary of a Workshop
John Iceland, National Academy Press, 2005.
Census Estimates for Alternative Poverty Measures
The Census Bureau has been periodically publishing “alternative poverty measures” for the past 15 years with many of the features of the SPM.
