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In four pages eight questions pertaining to this topic are answered and include discussion of statistics, poverty measurement techniques, poverty prevention strategies, and New Deal programs. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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history. This is especially true in the urban or inner cities with heavy concentrations of ethnic families and single-parent households. Poverty has been, in all likelihood, the most
measured, analyzed, and hotly debated social problem in the United States. Unfortunately, there remain more questions than satisfactory answers regarding how to reduce poverty while improving socioeconomic equality for
all Americans. 1. How Many People Are Poor? According to the most recent U.S. Census published statistics that utilize the absolute poverty line measurement tool, 13.2 percent of
Americans have been classified as living in poverty, which was an increase from the 12.5 percent of the previous year (Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States:
2008 13). These measurements reveal that 39.8 million Americans are classified as being impoverished, which is an increase of 2.5 million since 2007 (Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage
in the United States: 2008 13). 2. Three Poverty Measurement Techniques: Advantages and Disadvantages The official standard for measuring poverty in the United States is the absolute measure,
which seeks to define and analyze a standard that is based on the "absolute needs" of American citizens (Iceland 21). The absolute measurement the federal government presently uses was
developed by the Social Security Administrations Mollie Orshansky during President Lyndon B. Johnsons war on poverty domestic campaign of the mid-1960s (Iceland 22). This tool measures distinctions in consumption
level patterns in order to differentiate between those living at "subsistence level," or earning sufficient income to meet their absolute needs and those living below this level and unable to
adequately meet them (Iceland 21). This is what is known as the poverty line. In terms of advantages, the major absolute measurement advantage is that as a concept, it
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