Building a Consumption Poverty Measure: Initial ResultsFollowing Recommendations of a Federal Interagency Working Group.

The article offers information about the initial results following recommendations of a Federal interagency working group. It mentions a research builds on the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) initiative to produce a consumption measure of well-being at the consumer unit level, as well as recommendations from the Interagency Technical Working Group (ITWG) on Evaluating Alternative Measures of Poverty.