Question 26.1 Click on this article http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html Peruse this site stopping
specifically at “How the Census Bureau Measures Poverty” and the “Poverty
Thresholds.” Look also at some of the “Recent Poverty Measurement Research.”
Comment on the question “Does the current measure of poverty yield useful
information or is the measure so fundamentally flawed that a new one must be
used?” Question 26.2 Click on this article http://www.centeronbudget.org/1-22-02tanf2.htm Comment on what the article
suggests about the success of welfare reform in getting single mothers to work
and whether these women are better off as a result. |