Paper , Order, or Assignment Requirements

The source should come from from the book The Economics of Poverty and Discrimination 10th edition chapter 3 Counting the Poor.
Other sources can come from anywhere.

Essay:

First 2 pages:
Explain how the official poverty rate was established and how it is currently calculated in the United States. Now discuss five shortcomings of the official poverty measure. Are there alternative measures of poverty that may be better? If so, describe them.

Page 3 and 4
Prepare, for an adult living in Los Angeles, a minimum needs budget, listing goods and services, with estimated monthly costs, needed for a single individual. Now, redo this budget for a family of four (two adults and two children) living in Los Angeles. Put your budgets in table form and provide explanations for your estimates.