@Connie Citro recently updated updated her Hansen lecture paper on income and poverty measurement. We thought some folks here might be interested:
Challenges in Measuring Household Income and Poverty: Why Is It So Hard? Why Is It So Important?
https://washstat.org/hansen/2024Citro_paper.pdf
This paper takes an "historical, organizational, and statistical perspective on the measurement of income and poverty distributions for households in the United States." Connie also notes that "as of the time of completion of this expanded version of my lecture (May 2025), the future looks uncertain, even while the need for better information on households' economic well-being has never been greater."
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Mark Mather
Associate VP
PRB
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