Updating the Definitions and Methods of Measuring Poverty

History: “The Development of the Orshansky Thresholds and Their Subsequent History as the Official U.S. Poverty Measure,” by Gordon M. Fisher Go to Poverty Statistics \Last Revised: September 30, 2003. See also Computations for the 2004 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia ................
................