Abstract
This paper is a broad expansion of an SRSA Research Fellows Address presented in Roslyn, Virginia on April 16th, 2019. In it, I extol the virtues of poverty research, particularly that focused on the U.S. where households living on less than $4/day/person compose the largest shares of county populations. I note that two factors that are the hallmark of such extreme poverty - lack of a vehicle and lack of internet service - are forcing poor household to perceive themselves as ever more isolated, for greater accessibility for the rest of the U.S. population amplifies the gap created by their deficiency. This is because others expect everyone has such access. Southern areas with persistent poverty - the Black Belt, the Mississippi Delta, and Appalachia - have concentrations of such extreme poor and also have deficient access to the rest of the world. I suggest that Americans should find away to ameliorate this condition. I conclude by encouraging my SRSA colleagues to do what they do best, but with a poverty tilt, as a means of petitioning policy makers and the public.
Highlights
Presidential candidate Donald Trump declared he had no interest in altering Medicaid or other entitlements
After making adjustments along these lines, Allen (2017) suggests that the US equivalent should be more like $4.00/day (2011 PPP) if we apply $1.90/day to define poverty in India. This suggests that the number of Americans in deep poverty would be something more like 5.5 million, a rate of 1.7 percent
Isard goes on to tell us that “a typical regional scientist wants to surround himself with research assistants and a computer for a long time in order to collect all of the relevant information about the problem, analyze it carefully, try out some hypotheses, and reach some conclusions.”
Summary
Presidential candidate Donald Trump declared he had no interest in altering Medicaid or other entitlements Once his administration stepped into the White House, it started overhauling America’s safety net for the disadvantaged. His appointment of Seema Verma as the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was most telling. I focus on the welfare system since Nino Zarazua and Tarp (2016), among others, point out that inequality is perhaps the most critical political issue of the century. This is because growth of income has been tilting in favor of upper-income households.
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