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The United States’ official poverty thresholds trace to mid‑20th century technical work that became policy: developed the modern measure in 1963–64 using the USDA’s economy food plan and a “multiply b...
The federal poverty line in the United States began as thresholds developed by Social Security economist Mollie Orshansky in the mid-1960s and was formalized by the federal government as the Official ...
The supplied materials do not state a single numeric federal poverty level (FPL) for any year; instead they document debates about how poverty is measured and recommend methodological updates to feder...