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ensure accuracy. Measuring Poverty: A New Approach In addition
to accounting for different needs of families by number of
adults and children and geographic area of residence, we
recommend that the poverty measure take account of different
needs due to the fact that some families incur nondiscretionary
expenses that are not available for consumption. For example,
some families pay for child care in order to earn income, while
other families (and individuals) make no such payments, yet the
current thresholds are the same for both situations. One way to
recognize these different circumstances is to develop additional
thresholds, such as thresholds for nonworking families, working
families with children who pay for child care, and other working
families (see Renwick 1993a, 1993b, for an example of such an
approach). We recommend ins