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Fertility Fraud: Federal Criminal Law Issues
Congressional Research Service · 2022-07-19 · Resources · 1,779 words · PDF available
Recent media attention has focused on medical fertility specialists who have misrepresented the provenance of biological material—for example, inseminating patients with the specialists’ own sperm. Of...
The Supplemental Poverty Measure: Its Core Concepts, Development, and Use
Congressional Research Service · 2022-07-19 · Reports · 19,362 words · PDF available
The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) is a measure of economic deprivation—having insufficient financial resources to achieve a specified standard of living. The SPM addresses some of the limitations...