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April 19, 2025
Asylum Seekers and the Rise in Homelessness
Abstract Data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) indicate an unprecedented 43 percent increase in the number of people residing in homeless shelters in the United States…
February 14, 2025
Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers
…Economic Activity. Meyer, B D, J Han and J X Sullivan (2024), “Poverty, Hardship, and Government Transfers”, NBER Working Paper No. 33052. Meyer, B D, W K C Mok and…
October 22, 2024
Poverty, Hardship, and Government Transfers
Abstract We examine how the well-being of those with few resources changed, amidst economic disruption and large, transitory government transfers. We find that in the years leading up to the…
May 24, 2024
The First National Calculation of Mortality of the US Homeless Population
…that provides the first national calculation of mortality for the US homeless population (Meyer et al. 2023). We calculate mortality by linking 139,000 adults recorded as sheltered and unsheltered homeless…
October 17, 2023
Understanding Poverty Measurement
…spoke about the supplemental poverty measure, describing its shortcomings and the political machinations around this measure. Bruce Meyer followed with an exploration of the future of poverty measurement, highlighting the…
February 1, 2023
The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single‐Parent Families
Whether poverty has risen or fallen over time is a key barometer of societal progress. Between 1970 and 2020, the official poverty rate in the United States fell by just 1.2…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Key Points The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The…