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Percentage of People in Poverty, Using the Alternative Poverty Measure, 1967-2012

Note: Transfers include SNAP, housing subsidies, school lunch, LIHEAP, WIC, EITC and stimulus payments, cash welfare, SSI, Social Security, unemployment insurance, worker’s compensation, and veteran’s payments.

Source: Calculations by ASPE based on the Current Population Survey, as augmented by the Columbia Population Research Center, 1968 to 2013 (see Fox et al 2015).

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Percentage of People in Poverty, Using the Alternative Poverty Measure, 1967-2012