Alternative Poverty Rate MIT-GA-CPI

Description: 

Percent of people living in poor families, based on a definition of poverty proposed by the National Academy of Sciences as an alternative to the official definition. This alternative definition of poverty includes medical out-of-pocket expenses in the poverty thresholds (“MIT”), adjusts the poverty thresholds for geographic differences in the cost of living (“GA”), and adjusts for inflation using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (“CPI”).

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Methodological Notes: 

For the official poverty rate, see Official Poverty Rate.