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The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) is an alternative measure of poverty that takes into account regional cost variations and non-cash benefits.
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 ...
Over the past decade the poverty guidelines have been adjusted annually upward in line with year‑to‑year price changes measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI‑U), producing m...