Cost-of-Living-Based Measures of Poverty

COST-OF-LIVING MEASURES exist for two fundamental reasons. First, they are a means of comparing the relative purchasing power of income across geographical regions. For example, the amount of income it would take to maintain a certain standard of living in New ...

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