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Since social scientists and economists began measuring poverty, the definition has never strayed far from a discussion of income.
New research from Georgia Tech economist Shatakshee Dhongde shows there are multiple components of poverty that more accurately describes a household's economic condition. Dhongde looks at "deprivation" more than simply low income, and her work finds that almost 15 percent of Americans are deprived in multiple dimensions.
"This study approaches poverty in a new way," said Dhongde, who recently published "Multi-Dimensional Deprivation in the U.S." in the journal Social Indicators Research.
"We tried to identify what is missing in the literature on poverty, and measure deprivation in six dimensions: health, education, standard of living, security, social connections, and housing quality. When you look at deprivation in these dimensions, you have a better picture of what is really going on with households, especially in developed countries like the United States."
(Score: 2) by gringer on Sunday November 20 2016, @08:52PM
Because now it looks like we're winning the fight against poverty, we need to change the definition so that all those employed people get to keep their job and won't descend into "poverty":
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/declining-global-poverty-share-1820-2015 [ourworldindata.org]
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @09:54PM
Your error is in thinking 'poverty' was ever the problem.
No its not. The problem has, and always will be, actual results.
Its like benchmarking video cards. You design a benchmark that you hope adequately represents performance in all games.
Then everybody goes and maximizes their scores on the benchmark.
But because the benchmark is imperfect, that big expensive video card kinda sucks on some games.
You'd be pissed you wasted that money wouldn't you?
So what would you do?
Sane people come up with benchmark 2.0 that is closer to the true goal of predicting performance for all games.
Your complaint is like bitching that there is a new version of the benchmark.