Using the American community survey to create a National Academy of Sciences–style poverty measure: Work by the New York City Center for Economic Opportunity.

The article provides information on the effects of implementation of the poverty measures by the New York City Center for Economic Opportunity to determine poverty in the country. The measures were suggested by the National Academy of Sciences in response to the U.S. state and local government's efforts to start antipoverty measures. The City Center faced obstacles in using the Census Bureau's American Community Survey as its source of data. The result of the survey revealed a high poverty rate. The demographic profile of the poor people generated by the City Center was found to be different from the profile produced by the official measure. The article also discusses the influence of poverty on policymaking in New York City.