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Title: Wisconsin Poverty Report: Policy Context, Methodology, and Results for 2010

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Although national authorities declared an end to the Great Recession in June of 2009, the economic downturn has continued to have negative repercussions in Wisconsin and beyond. Wisconsin experienced further job reductions in 2010 and no substantial job growth in 2011. Official poverty statistics provided by the U.S. Census Bureau reveal that poverty in the state actually increased in 2010 compared to 2009, indicating that Wisconsin residents generally had lower levels of pre-tax cash resources during the period considered. Given the substantial loss of market income in Wisconsin, the findings of the 2010 Wisconsin Poverty Project are quite surprising. When we estimate poverty using our alternative measure, the Wisconsin Poverty Measure (WPM), we find that state poverty actually dropped between 2009 and 2010, from 11.1 percent to 10.3 percent. Behind this surprising story is the impact of tax-related provisions and near-cash benefits from programs that government officials augmented to offset increased economic hardship due to the recession. The official poverty measure considers only pre-tax cash income as a resource, and therefore fails to fully capture the effects of national and local . . .

Url: http://www.irp.wisc.edu/research/wipoverty.htm.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Authors: Chung, Yiyoon; Isaacs, Julia B; Smeeding, Timothy M; Thornton, Katherine A

Publisher: University of Wisconsin–Madison

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Poverty and Welfare

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