Government would use a new method to count who is poor, including all income and taxes.
This bill would require the U.S. Census Bureau to add a new way of measuring poverty, in addition to its current methods. This new approach would follow a method used by the Congressional Budget Office, which looks at all earned income and government payments, then subtracts all taxes paid. This would change how official poverty statistics are calculated and reported.
Today, the Census Bureau uses the Official Poverty Measure and the Supplemental Poverty Measure to count who is poor. If this bill becomes law, the Census Bureau would add a third method. This new method would specifically include a broader range of earned income and government payments, and would subtract all taxes paid by individuals, providing a different picture of poverty and income inequality.
S 3756 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10
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