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Getz, Virginia K. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1986
Reports the effect of valuing in-kind benefits as income and contrasts the resulting changes in reported poverty rates in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. Finds consideration of in-kind benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid does reduce the reported number of poor, but incidence of poverty remains higher for nonmetro areas. (LFL)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Status, Income, Low Income Groups
