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1. Remembering Mollie Orshansky--the developer of the poverty thresholds

Author

Fisher, Gordon M.

Subjects
Business, Economics, Government, Human resources and labor relations
Abstract

In December 2005, Mollie Orshansky, known to many as Ms. Poverty, died at age 91 after a long government career during which she did pioneering research on poverty and the [...]

Published
2008

2. The development and history of the poverty thresholds.

Author

Fisher, Gordon M.

Subjects
Poverty -- Measurement -- History
Abstract

In recent years there has been renewed interest in the United States in the definition and measurement of poverty. In early 1992, the Committee on National Statistics of the National [...]

Published
1992

3. Poverty guidelines for 1992.

Author

Fisher, Gordon M.

Subjects
Poverty -- Standards, United States. Department of Health and Human Services -- Standards
Abstract

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) of 1981 (section 673(2)) transferred the responsibility of annually updating the Federal Government's poverty guidelines from the Community Services Administration (CSA)--formerly the Office of [...]

Published
1992

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