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POLICY INSIGHT
BEYOND THE NUMBERS
BEYOND THE NUMBERS
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With poverty in the news — including a major new book on the rise of extreme poverty and the Census Bureau’s upcoming release of the latest poverty figures — our new chart book examines the safety net’s impact on poverty and hardship.
For example, the safety net cuts poverty by more than half if you correct for households’ underreporting of key government benefits in Census surveys, as the chart shows.
The chart book also: