Bureau of Labor Statistics

TO CALCULATE THE NUMBER of Americans living in poverty, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics uses an approach originally developed in 1964 by Mollie Orshansky at the U.S. Social Security Administration. Though other agencies sometimes use different formulas, the Orshansky approach ...

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