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.
It has been reported that poor premorbid social functioning is related to worse outcomes among people with both depression and psychotic disorders (Jablensky 2000; Sands and Harrow 1995) and associated with poor theory of mind skills (Wang et al. 2008).