The Poverty of "The Poverty Rate": Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America

by Nicholas Eberstadt

Since its inception in 1965, America's official poverty rate (OPR) has been the single most important statistic used by policymakers and concerned citizens to evaluate success or failure in the nation's ongoing struggle against material need. But in a critical new examination of this widely followed measure, Nicholas Eberstadt charges that the OPR is, in reality, "a broken compass"--a flawed index generating increasingly misleading numbers about poverty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844742465
• ISBN13: 9780844742465
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.7"