Self-reliance and Poverty
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چکیده
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 family's capacity for generating income rather than on its actual money income. This measure, called net earnings capacity (NEC), rests on a concept of self-reliance and is used to determine the size of the population that is unable to be self-reliant.
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Working Paper No. 247
The trend in national policy over the past two decades has emphasized self reliance and a smaller role for government in society. Given this ideological shift, the Official poverty measure, which is based on the premise that all families should have sufficient income from either their own efforts or government support to boost them above a family-size-specific threshold, appears to have less po...
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