FMSC 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Federal Register, Natural Disaster

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Family Science
• Course: FMSC 381
• Professor: Golojuch

Document Summary

Example: natural disaster food shortages, thus looting stores to steal food might be reasonable. Example: natural disaster looting he/she is stealing, they are a thief. Absolute an objective standard based on meeting basic needs: the amount of money required to meet basic needs. Two measures: federal poverty threshold - the original version of the federal poverty measure. They are updated each year by the census bureau. The thresholds are used mainly for statistical purposes. Initially based on family food consumption times 3; times 3 can count for your housing. In 1969 the poverty threshold was designated and a statistical definition was put out: now the consumer price index is used to measure poverty, federal poverty guideline the other version of the federal poverty measure. They are issued each year in the federal register by the department of health and human.