Impact on poverty rate of economic, demographic, and education changes, 1979–2013

Factor Effect
Inequality 7.1
Growth -3.4
Education -2.9
Family structure 1.6
Race 1.1
Interaction -0.5

 

Source: EPI analysis of Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement microdata based on Danziger and Gottschalk (1995)

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