Why Virginia Needs a New Poverty Measure
How many of us are poor?Answering that question is not as easy as one may think. Yes, we do have an official poverty statistic that is produced by the U.S. Census Bureau, but nobody likes it. Many on...
View ArticleRegional Cost of Living Adjustments for Poverty Rates in Virginia
Common sense tells us that the cost of goods and services are different in different parts of the country. For instance, the economic reality and expenditures of families living in Northern Virginia...
View ArticleOfficial Poverty Estimates, in the US and the Commonwealth
This past weekend, The New York Times published an interactive map visualizing recently released Census data on poverty in America. The NYT map gives information down to the census tract level; this...
View ArticleFamily Matters
About a year ago, the Demographics Research Group released a report entitled The Virginia Poverty Measure: An Alternative Poverty Measure for the Commonwealth. In the coming weeks, we’ll be revisiting...
View ArticleWill promoting marriage solve childhood poverty in Virginia?
In 2011, one in three Virginia children lived in economic insecurity–either in poverty or in near poverty–as defined by Virginia Poverty Measure (VPM) poverty thresholds. This statistic, among others,...
View ArticleChildren living with married parents can be poor, too
Drawing on our recent report, New Insights on Childhood Poverty, Annie and I published an op-ed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch over the weekend. In it we discussed the consequences of limiting the...
View ArticleExtended Families: Weapon against Child Poverty?
Children living in married parent families are less likely to live in or near poverty than children in unmarried (either single– or cohabiting) parent [...]
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