Readings for the 15 February class are as follows:
Executive summary of the Heritage foundation report: "How Poor Are America's Poor? Examining the 'Plague' of Poverty in America" (1st 2 pages -- or read more if you like): http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/upload/bg_2064.pdf
Policy brief from Brookings Institution's Hamilton Project: "Improving the Measurement of Poverty"
http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2008/12_poverty_measurement_blank/12_poverty_measurement_brief_blank.pdf
For background on New Jersey (and we'll look into this more next week): Legal Services of New Jersey's "Poverty Benchmarks 2009"
http://www.lsnj.org/PDFs/budget/Benchmarks2009.pdf
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