How does the government measure poverty in America? What are the pros and cons of its methods?

In this “Health Care 101” guide, Christopher J. Conover, author of the just-released “American Health Economy Illustrated,” distinguishes fact from fiction and answers some of the most fundamental questions about health care and health spending in America.

Over the next two to three decades, India’s demographic composition will have a significant impact on the country’s economic and strategic capabilities. NBR spoke with expert demographer Nicholas Eberstadt about what India’s population profile will likely look like and how it compares to another major state in the region, China.

Due to fundamental defects in the method by which the U.S. poverty rate is calculated, it is difficult to accurately assess living standards at any point in time and long term trends.

The twentieth century was truly the first measured century, the first era when the disparate activity of human life came to be seen as quantifiable and people set out to change the world using data.

Today's official poverty rate is hardly lower than the 1968 rate, but a closer look at forty years of poverty data tells a more mixed story.

The chained Consumer Price Index can be used to index tax brackets and federal benefit payments.

President Clinton has said that...