Mollie Orshansky

American economist

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Lived 1915–2006, aged 91United States

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Aged 91
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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.

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