Poverty guidelines play two important roles, they are a scorecard for how we are doing as a state, and they help determine eligibility for dozens of programs that low-income Arkansans rely on. Because the current guidelines are outdated, they...
The current poverty benchmarks in the United States are miserably out of date, basing their measurements on decades old research. In the 1960s, the average family of three spent about a third of their after tax income on food,...
Many experts agree that the federal poverty measures are outdated and underestimate the amount of money a family must to earn to take care of all of its basic needs. The current federal poverty measures do not accurately count...