While the Supplemental Poverty Measure.

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While the Supplemental Poverty Measure recently announced by the Commerce Department is a step in the right direction, the measure only is a "half-hearted improvement" toward defining poverty in the U.S. accurately, asserts sociologist David Brady, author of Rich Democracies, Poor People: How Politics Explain Poverty. He says the supplemental measure should reveal that several million more Americans are poor...