Exploring Basic Income in a Changing Economy Teach-Out
Understanding Poverty and Inequality / Lesson 2 of 2
David Johnson - University of Michigan - How to measure poverty?
20 minutes
Dr. Johnson is the Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. He is an economist with many years of experience in the federal statistical system. His research focuses on inequality and poverty measurement, equivalence scale estimation, and consumption. His interests also include the measurement of inequality and mobility (using income, consumption and wealth), the effects of tax rebates, equivalence scale estimation, poverty measurement, and price indexes. He also worked for many years in the Federal Statistical System, including experience in administrative data linkages. He holds a Ph.D. University of Minnesota and a B.S. University of Puget Sound.
In this segment Dr. Johnson will talk about the mechanisms for measuring poverty in the United States. He will introduce a new measurement system that he helped develop called the Supplemental Poverty Measure and will discuss the implications of a new measurement system for the conversation around basic income.