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The Supplemental Poverty Measure, is a statistic published by the United States Census Bureau, introduced in 2011, which aims to providing a more accurate picture of the true extent of poverty in the United States than their other statistic, the Official Poverty Measure, by taking into account non-cash benefits and geographic variations in the cost-of-living. [1] By this measure, an estimated 16% of Americans lived in poverty in 2011.
- The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) is one of two measures of poverty produced by the Census Bureau (the other measure being the official poverty measure). The SPM has been published by the Census Bureau since 2011 and expands the money income definition of poverty used by the official poverty measure . . .