New PDF release: The Poverty Wars: Reconnecting Research With Reality

By Peter Saunders

ISBN-10: 0868408107

ISBN-13: 9780868408101

ISBN-10: 1423790049

ISBN-13: 9781423790044

Saunders argues that as a kingdom Australia can come up with the money for to cast off monetary poverty. the truth that we do not achieve this is an issue of selection, now not affordability—as the adventure of different nations demonstrates. In hard this concept, this e-book makes a speciality of how poverty in a different way may help to make an international with out poverty a pragmatic truth.

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The first large-scale systematic, national longitudinal study with an explicit economic focus, the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey collected its first wave of data in 2001 (Melbourne Institute, 2003). The third wave of HILDA data has recently been released and evidence is beginning to emerge about the extent of income mobility and the dynamics of Australian poverty. A longitudinal data set (LDS) that describes the benefit (and post-benefit) histories of welfare recipients has also been developed from administrative data by FaCS, and this can be used to examine how poverty risks vary over time for those on the welfare system.

There are many. Small shifts in the poverty line can thus produce large swings in the numbers who fall below it. However, the fact that many people have incomes close to the alternative poverty lines is no accident. Over time, the poverty line has been used to guide the setting of welfare benefits and pension levels for people according to their age, marital status, housing circumstances and whether or not they have children. Since large numbers receive some of these benefits, the poverty rate will consequently be sensitive to where the poverty line is set.

4). Aged couples had low poverty rates in both years: 5 per cent in 1973 and less than 4 per cent in 1996, although many aged couples were only marginally above the poverty line in both years. Three features stand out from the available studies of poverty in old age. First, home ownership plays an important role in protecting older people from poverty by reducing their housing costs, freeing up resources for other needs. Second, statistical estimates of poverty are very sensitive to where the pension sits relative to the poverty line: many of those who rely on the pension for their main source of income fall close to the poverty line, sometimes just below it, sometimes just above.

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