Topics: Economics and Personal Finances, Socioeconomic Class. 1  Richard Fry is a senior researcher focusing on economics and education at Pew Research Center. 2  Rakesh Kochhar is an associate director of research at Pew Research Center.
In the United States, the Census Bureau determines who is poor using an economic poverty measure, by calculating official poverty estimates using a set of dollar-value thresholds, or minimum amount of income needed to meet basic needs, that vary by family size and composition.
Good for utilities, customer savings. For utilities, behavioral demand response can mean avoided costs and and a more reliable systemâwith fewer regulatory hurdles to overcome along the way. Pure behavioral demand response is not something that requires a regulatory change from a rate perspective, Hamilton said.