The Threshold Income Level Originally Used to Determine Official Poverty

question 47

Multiple Choice

The threshold income level originally used to determine official poverty statistics was based on

• A) an income three times the amount of money needed to purchase a nutritionally adequate diet.
• B) standards provided by the United Nations based on studies done in poor countries around the world.
• C) the highest income of the lowest one-fifth of families in the country.
• D) a per capita income of $1,000 in 1958 prices.

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