Assessing the Potential Impacts of Innovative New Policy Proposals on Poverty in the United States
C Wimer, S Collyer, S Kimberlin - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation …, 2018 - rsfjournal.org
This article provides estimates of the potential anti-poverty impacts of eight proposals
presented in this double issue of RSF. Using the 2016 Annual Social and Economic
Supplement to the Current Population Survey and the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor
Statistics' Supplemental Poverty Measure, we first discuss the simulation approach taken for
each proposal and then provide a consistent set of poverty estimates across proposals that
include reductions in the poverty and deep poverty rates and the poverty gap; demographic …
presented in this double issue of RSF. Using the 2016 Annual Social and Economic
Supplement to the Current Population Survey and the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor
Statistics' Supplemental Poverty Measure, we first discuss the simulation approach taken for
each proposal and then provide a consistent set of poverty estimates across proposals that
include reductions in the poverty and deep poverty rates and the poverty gap; demographic …