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1. “Experts Try to Make Sense of U.S. Poverty Rates.” 2001. New York Amsterdam News, July 25, 2001, Vol. 92 Issue 29, p18. Content Select: General Interest, AN_4890266. This article discusses the continuing high child poverty rate in the U.S. It also provides a discussion of how the child poverty ratio is measure, factors contributing to the trend, and law and policy implications. 2. Marciniak, Ed. 2000. “Recalculating Poverty.” Commonwealth, January 28, 2001, Vol. 127 Issue 2, p10. Content Select: General Interest, AN_2746290. The author focuses on the U.S. poor and how the Bureau of the Census designates a family as being poor. He argues for a misrepresentation built-in to this definition and provides another definition. 3. Lichter, Daniel T. and Crowley, Martha, L. 2002. “Poverty in America: Beyond Welfare Reform.” Population Bulletin, June 2002, Vol. 57 Issue 2, p3. Content Select: General Interest, AN_6893272. The authors examine U.S. poverty as of June 2002. They analyze the percentage of families benefiting from TANF and provide details of other programs for needy families while providing numerous graphs and charts. 4. “Poverty In The U.S.” 2000. Economic Trends (Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland), November 2000, p14. Content Select: General Interest, AN_3792344. The report presents information about poverty up to November 2000. It offers information on the prevalence of poverty, definition of poverty and poverty rates, discussion of race and age, and a discussion of factors associated with poverty. 5. Iyebote, Fidelis. 2000. “How Poverty-Stricken is The U.S.?” World & I, January 2000, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p72. Content Select: General Interest, AN_2679402. The author assesses the state of U.S. poverty and provides: definitions, comparisons to Canadian poverty, and comparisons to other countries. 6. Francis, David R. 1998. “How poor is ‘Poor?’” Christian Science Monitor, October 7, 1998, Vol. 90 Issue 220, p11. Content Select: General Interest, AN_1146997. The author discusses the prevalence of U.S. poverty and provides a criticism of a report on poverty from the Heritage foundation. He argues that all things considered the poor today are poorer than the poor of the 1960s.
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