If One Includes In-Kind Income in the Calculation, the

question 41

Multiple Choice

If one includes in-kind income in the calculation, the

• A)official poverty rate becomes meaningless.
• B)incidence of poverty actually increases.
• C)poverty rate is unchanged.
• D)fraction of the population in poverty drops.

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