The CBPP on How Redefining the Poverty Line Would Hurt Low-Income Americans

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). June 2019. The CBPP outlined why the Trump Administration’s plan to lower the federal poverty line by applying a smaller cost-of-living adjustment per year would have a negative impact on low-income Americans.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/reducing-cost-of-living-adjustment-would-make-poverty-line-a-less