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"A new approach is needed, one that measures pverty through multiple factors such as housing, transportation, and regional economic differences."
"Most people who care about measuring poverty- academics, policymakers, nonprofit leaders, and the like- agree that the way the federal governmet currently determines who is poor and who is not doesn't work."
"The measure does not consider other living costs besides food, and the federal poverty line is the same whether a person lives in New York City or McAlester, Okla."
"A line cannot provide information about the depth or intensity of deprivation. It cannot tell us about the duration of poverty... it does not provide information about the correlates or causes of poverty."
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