Some poverty scholars have contended that millions of Americans live on just a few dollars per day. Others report that such extreme deprivation is exceedingly rare in the US. Reliable information on this topic is crucial for understanding how we can combat poverty in the US.
AEI’s Bruce Meyer has used survey, administrative, and tax data to discover new insights into extreme poverty, culminating in his new paper, “The Use and Misuse of Income Data and the Rarity of Extreme Poverty in the United States.”

Please join AEI as Dr. Meyer and a panel of experts discuss Dr. Meyer’s recent research on extreme poverty, how it interacts with the social safety net, and how it has been inaccurately estimated in the past.

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