Measuring Poverty and Deprivation in a U.S. Context: Some Additional Considerations

摘要

In this neat little article, John Iceland (this issue) tries his best to find as much science as he can in what has become a highly political and subjective matter: the definition of a poverty line. There is much to like here, and young Iceland ends up just where the National Academy of Sciences experts end up—with a quasi-relative poverty definition. I would end up close to this point as well but would make additional arguments about why we should be there.