Topic summary
Supplemental Poverty Measure
Extracted from the Wikipedia article United States census.
Poverty measures
The supplemental poverty measure (SPM), introduced in 2011, aims to provide a more accurate picture of the true extent of poverty in the United States than the OPM, by taking into account non-cash benefits and geographic variations in the cost-of-living. 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.