Mollie Orshansky, (January 9 1915 - December 18 2006), was an American economist and statistician who, in 1963-65, developed the "Orshansky Poverty Thresholds", which are used in the United States as a measure of the income that a household must not exceed to be counted as poor. Wikipedia
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