Day to day, the poverty measure directly affects the lives of millions of Americans.

At least $60 billion in federal aid annually is linked to the poverty measure, and $260 billion or so in Medicaid spending takes it into account.

She is working on a way to adjust the new poverty measure also for regional differences in living costs, particularly for housing.

The poverty thresholds are the original version of the federal poverty measure.

The poverty guidelines are the other version of the federal poverty measure.

Relative poverty measures are used as official poverty rates in several developed countries.

Cameron is having a dig at relative poverty measures.

The United States, in contrast, uses an absolute poverty measure.

Both absolute and relative poverty measures are usually based on a person's yearly income and frequently take no account of total wealth.

Official poverty measures count those on less than 60% of median income.