# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mollie-orshansky
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:07:58.755Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mollie-orshansky"
name: "Mollie Orshansky"
slug: "mollie-orshansky"
description: "Mollie Orshansky 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."
tagline: "American economist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mollie_Orshansky_1967.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1915-01-09"
deathDate: "2006-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Mollie Orshansky"
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    title: "مولى اورشانسكى"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie_Orshansky"
    title: "Mollie Orshansky"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie_Orshansky"
    title: "Mollie Orshansky"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie_Orshansky"
    title: "Mollie Orshansky"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump