- College students living off campus inflate poverty rates in Eugene, Corvallis, Portland, By Betsy Hammond, July 29, 2013, The Oregonian: “A new Census Bureau study shows that college students who live off campus and earn little to nothing while in school make the poverty rates look high around the University of Oregon and Oregon State University…”
- Census Bureau: Poverty rates drop when college students aren’t counted, By Richard Stradling, July 29, 2013, News & Observer: “Poverty rates drop in college towns like Chapel Hill, Greenville and even Raleigh when you don’t count students living off campus, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The government already doesn’t count college students living in dorms when it figures poverty rates. But students who rent houses or apartments off campus are traditionally counted in poverty statistics, even if their only income comes from weekend fast-food jobs and their parents are paying most of their bills…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty