Originally, the Threshold Income Level Used to Determine Official Poverty

question 123

Multiple Choice

Originally, the threshold income level used to determine official poverty statistics was based on

• A) a per capita income of $3000 in 1955 prices.
• B) the lowest income of the second quartile of families in the country.
• C) an income three times greater than necessary to purchase a nutritionally adequate diet.
• D) figures developed by a committee in the American Economic Association.

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