AdvertisementNew Measure Shows Higher Poverty Rate In U.S.November 07, 2011Pam FesslerfacebookEmailJoseph Byrd, unemployed and living on disability, prepares to pick up groceries at the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger food pantry in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2010. The new experimental poverty measure takes into account cost of living associated with geographic differences. (AP)