id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-005781 U.S. poverty numbers continue to decline, researchers find | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 985 28 44 Much of this difference between Sullivan and Meyer’s consumption-based poverty measure and the Census Bureau’s official poverty measure can be explained by bias in the price index used to calculate official poverty, the consumer price index (CPI).    This year’s figures show that 0.2 percentage points of that decline in consumption poverty occurred between 2016 and 2017.    cache/news-005781.html txt/news-005781.txt