Besides the Luxembourg Income Studies that Doug mentions, you should also look at the data on the Institute for Research on Poverty website at the University of Wisconsin at Madison [www.irp.wisc.edu/ ] . They have a lot of pertinent material on this issue.
Joel Blau Jim Devine wrote:
Where can I find statistics since 1959 (or so) on the percentage of US families which earn less that (say) 1/2 of the median family income? I'm trying to get a time-series measuring a "relative" measure of poverty to compare to the official measure (basically an "absolute" measure of poverty). -- Jim Devine / "The truth is at once less sinister and more dangerous." -- Naomi Klein.
