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Self-reliance and Poverty
In the current political and social climate, with its call for self-reliance as the means by which families and individuals should support themselves, the official U.S. poverty indicator may be measuring the size of a population that is of less interest to policymakers than in past years. We present here an alternative measure of poverty for the United States population that is based on a famil...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147- 4478)
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2147-4478
DOI: 10.20525/ijrbs.v9i6.901