Measures of Poverty That Fail to Account for the Value

question 376

Multiple Choice

Measures of poverty that fail to account for the value of in-kind transfers

• A)understate the actual poverty rate.
• B)have little effect on the validity of reported poverty rates.
• C)are generally more reliable measures of actual poverty rates.
• D)overstate the actual poverty rate.

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