Poverty Statistics Enhancement Act requires the Bureau of the Census to adopt a new methodology for measuring poverty.
The Poverty Statistics Enhancement Act mandates the Bureau of the Census to implement a new methodology for measuring poverty, in addition to the existing Official Poverty Measure and Supplemental Poverty Measure. This new methodology will incorporate the distributional analysis of household income used by the Congressional Budget Office. The Bureau of the Census must use this new methodology for all publications and data sets issued after its implementation.
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