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The Cashier and the Carpenter

"In America women have in fact made considerable progress in getting into a range of jobs that used to be male preserves, according to a recent paper by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, a think-tank in Washington, DC. For example, the share of women [...]

November 28, 2011|Categories: Press Hits|

What Percentage Lives in Poverty?

"A difference of one percentage point in the overall poverty rate is no big deal. But the new Supplemental Poverty Measure , or S.P.M., developed by the Census Bureau , which yields the slightly higher overall estimate, shows lower rates of poverty among children and [...]

November 15, 2011|Categories: Press Hits|

Poverty’s new faces: Where to draw the line?

"It goes back to 1963. A statistician named Mollie Orshansky, working for the Social Security Administration, was asked to come up with a mathematical equation for determining who was poor by government standards. Not even she thought the formula would stick for generations. Yearly income [...]

November 15, 2011|Categories: Press Hits|

Poverty's new faces: Where to draw the line?

"It goes back to 1963. A statistician named Mollie Orshansky, working for the Social Security Administration, was asked to come up with a mathematical equation for determining who was poor by government standards. Not even she thought the formula would stick for generations. Yearly income [...]

November 15, 2011|Categories: Press Hits|