SINCE THE FEDERAL definition of poverty is the in-come-based Orshansky measure, it is no surprise that there is a correlation between not working and poverty. In 2003 nearly two-thirds of those aged 25 to 65 did not work in the week prior to being surveyed by the Current Population Survey (CPS), compared to one-quarter of the entire CPS sample. [Source: Encyclopedia of World Poverty; Nonworking Poor]
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