Has Poverty Gotten Worse?
分析了美国官方贫困率从1973年的11.1%升至1995年的13.8%的趋势，考察了多种替代贫困衡量指标，发现几乎所有合理指标都显示贫困人口比例上升。
The official U.S. government figures showed an increase in the poverty rate from 11.1 percent in 1973 to 13.8 percent in 1995. However, some maintain that this upward trend is due to defects in the official poverty measure. This paper analyzes alternative measures of poverty and concludes that nearly all reasonable alternatives show similar trends in poverty over the recent past. There has been an increase in the percentage of people in the United States who are poor, although one can argue that the official Census figures either understate or somewhat overstate the increase.