Using novel state-level data of Peru from 1997 to 2010, we investigate how growth in different sectors affects poverty rates and the middle class. Our results indicate that only the manufacturing ...
On Tuesday the Census Bureau is scheduled to release income and poverty statistics for 2022. It’s safe to say that the report will be hard to interpret. Last year, the two poverty measures released by ...
Mr. Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, is the director of its Eviction Lab and the author of “Poverty, by America” and “Evicted.” The United States has a poverty problem. A third of the country’s ...