{"584829":{"#nid":"584829","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Want to Define Poverty? Consider More Than Just Income, Study Says","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EShatakshee Dhongde, assistant professor in the Ivan Allen College School of Economics, was quoted in \u0026ldquo;Want to Define Poverty? Consider More Than Just Income, Study Says\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EHowStuffWorks.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EA\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11205-016-1379-1\u0022\u003Enew study\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in the journal Social Indicators Research proposes just such a multidimensional approach to looking at poverty in the U.S. It would lead to more accurate assessments, it argues, of \u0026nbsp;whether the basic needs are being met within a household.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The federal poverty line was set up during Lyndon Johnson\u0026#39;s War on Poverty \u0026mdash; that\u0026#39;s how dated the poverty line is,\u0026quot; says author Shatakshee Dhongde, an assistant professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.econ.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Economics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;at Georgia Tech. \u0026quot;It\u0026#39;s been updated with respect to inflation, but what hasn\u0026#39;t changed is the notion of income, what you include in income, and the formula that was established back in the 1960\u0026#39;s to tell whether families are able to meet their basic needs \u0026mdash; that hasn\u0026#39;t changed.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/now.howstuffworks.com\/2016\/12\/06\/poverty-look-beyond-income\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-12-08 15:59:33","changed_gmt":"2017-04-27 20:16:03","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Meixue Duan","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/now.howstuffworks.com\/2016\/12\/06\/poverty-look-beyond-income","dateline":{"date":"2016-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-12-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"405671":{"id":"405671","type":"image","title":"Shatakshee Dhongde - Updated","body":null,"created":"1449254153","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:35:53","changed":"1567697446","gmt_changed":"2019-09-05 15:30:46","alt":"A portrait photo of Shatakshee Dhongde","file":{"fid":"76094","name":"shataksheedhongdeweb.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shataksheedhongdeweb.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shataksheedhongdeweb.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35751,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/shataksheedhongdeweb.jpg?itok=A3OnQAA9"}}},"media_ids":["405671"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}