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The History of the Official Poverty Measure


The History of the Official Poverty Measure - U.S. Census Bureau

The History of the Official Poverty Measure. The current official poverty measure was developed in the mid 1960s by Mollie Orshansky, a staff ...

History of Poverty Thresholds - ASPE - HHS.gov

The poverty thresholds were originally developed in 1963-1964 by Mollie Orshansky of the Social Security Administration. She published an analysis of the ...

Poverty: The History of a Measure - U.S. Census Bureau

Over the past fifty years, there have been numerous efforts to improve the official poverty measure, including an Interagency Poverty Studies Task Force in the ...

The Development and History of the Poverty Thresholds - SSA

The OEO adopted the lower ("economy level") of Orshansky's two sets of poverty thresholds as a working or quasi official definition of poverty in May 1965. As ...

Historical Poverty Trends and Measurement

Under the Census Bureau's official poverty measure, poverty in the United States appears to have stagnated in recent decades. ... Since 2009, the US Census Bureau ...

Further Resources on Poverty Measurement, Poverty Lines ... - ASPE

The Official Federal Statistical Definition of Poverty ... In August 1969, the U.S. Bureau of the Budget (the predecessor of the U.S. Office of Management and ...

An Introduction to Poverty Measurement - CRS Reports

The poverty measures discussed in this report—the official U.S. poverty measure and the research Supplemental Poverty Measure. (SPM)—focus on ...

Remembering Mollie Orshansky—The Developer of the Poverty ...

In May 1965, OEO adopted Mollie's extended thresholds as a working definition of poverty for statistical, planning, and budget purposes, and in August 1969 her ...

Historical SPM Data - Center on Poverty and Social Policy

The historical SPM dataset makes SPM poverty rates available back to 1967, the first year the official poverty measure began, to enable tracking of poverty ...

How Poverty in the United States Is Measured and Why It Matters

When U.S. lawmakers speak about lifting people out of poverty, they are typically referring to the official poverty measure, which first ...

Understanding Poverty Measures and the Call To Update Them

The official US poverty measures are based on studies conducted by Social Security Administration economist Mollie Orshansky.

How is poverty measured?

Official poverty estimates are drawn from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC), which is conducted in February, March, ...

The official poverty measure is garbage. The census has found ... - Vox

The official poverty measure was developed by the Social Security Administration's Mollie Orshansky in 1963 and defined as three times the “ ...

The Supplemental Poverty Measure

The official measure has further been criticized for not considering the significant demographic, economic, and welfare policy changes that have ...

The Supplemental Poverty Measure: Its Core Concepts ...

Under the official poverty measure, an individual is counted as poor if his or her family's pre-tax money income falls below the poverty ...

It's Time to Reset the Poverty Line - The Century Foundation

In 1969, the federal government established the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) as its first-ever measure of poverty—created by taking the ...

Knowing the Strengths and Limitations of Poverty Measures Can ...

The OPM is an absolute poverty measure based on the cost of a minimal diet in the 1960s. The OPM-based official poverty rates are suited for ...

The development and history of the poverty thresholds - PubMed

In April 1990, Urban Institute economist Patricia Ruggles published a book that urged the revision of the poverty line to reflect changes in consumption ...

It's Time for a Better Poverty Measure - Center for American Progress

But the official measure is deeply flawed. The dollar figures used to determine if families are in poverty are low and in many ways arbitrary.

2.1 The Measurement and Extent of Poverty | Social Problems

The measure of official poverty began in 1963 and stipulates that a family whose income is lower than three times the cost of a minimal diet is considered ...