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The absolute measure of poverty used today was developed in the 1960s. As poverty emerged as an important social issue, government agencies grappled with ways to define, assess, and respond to it. In 1963, the Social Security Administra-tion (SSA) attempted to define what the necessary minimum income was for a fam-ily. At that time, the SSA was responsible for programs designed to address poverty. Two pieces of data were used to determine the official poverty threshold,or the dollar amount set for the federal poverty measure. Informally, it is often re-ferred to as the poverty line. The first piece of data used to develop the povertythreshold was the amount of money it took to feed a family. The second statistic was the proportion of family income that went toward food. In the words of the creator of the poverty threshold, Mollie Orshansky, then director of the SSA, “The standard itself is admittedly arbitrary, but not unreasonable. It is based essen-tially on the amount of income remaining after allowance for an adequate diet at minimum cost” (Orshansky, 1965, p. 4).
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