

America's Children in Poverty: A New Look at Who's Poor Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure. The “Thrown-In”
The smallest of the three groups of children is the 2.4 million children who are found to be poor under the SPM but not the OPM, or those who are “thrown in” to poverty under the SPM. Like the lifted-out group, these children are in families that are fairly well-connected to the labor market. Fully 87.4 percent of these “thrown-in” childre