The Orshansky Poverty Thresholds And

Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations

poverty in the United States, which reflects the fraction of persons (or families) with incomes below an absolute threshold.1 The poverty thresholds were developed in 1963–1964 by Mollie Orshansky, an economist at the Social Security Adminis-Poverty in America: Trends and Explanations 51

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