Richmond Fed Magazine Econ Focus, Formerly Region Focus, Reports on Measuring Poverty in America
(firmenpresse) - RICHMOND, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/08/13 -- The "poverty line," the federal government's statistical definition of poverty, has shaped discussions of U.S. antipoverty policy since the late 1960s. Are we defining poverty too broadly? Too narrowly? The in looks at these and other questions about measures of material deprivation.
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with Christopher Carroll, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University and previously a senior economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton and President Obama, on how consumers reacted to the housing crash, the major unsolved puzzles in consumption theory, and building a better economics Ph.D. program.
Econ Focus, formerly Region Focus, is the economics magazine of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. It covers economic issues affecting the Fifth Federal Reserve District (the District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and most of West Virginia) and the nation. Its new name better reflects the magazine's mix of both national and regional coverage.
For a free subscription to Econ Focus or for copies of the magazine, contact the Bank's Research Publications division at (800) 322-0565. The articles are available online at .
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David A. Price
Senior Editor
Econ Focus
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Phone: (804) 697-8018
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