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Understanding Income-to-Threshold Ratios Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure: People with Moderate Income

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Working Paper Number SEHSD-WP2012-18

Abstract

In November of 2011 the Census Bureau released the first report (Short, 2011) detailing research on a new Supplemental Poverty Measure following suggestions from an interagency technical working group (ITWG, 2010). Notable was the increase in the percent of individuals with income in the lower middle of the SPM resource distribution. This large group represents what we will refer to as people of ‘moderate income’ whose net resources leave them between 1 and 2 times the SPM threshold. This group is the focus of this paper. Rather than fully analyze this group the main goal is to provide estimates to those who are interested in conducting additional analysis and inspection. Further investigation into the SPM will benefit our understanding of the implications of this new measure for those who are not poor but for whom the SPM concepts might apply, including the moderate income group we focus on here.

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