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   What did Miss Orshansky do for a living?

   • Miss Orshansky received honors from the Social Security Administration, the American Statistical Association and the American Political Science Association. For most of her career, she lived in an apartment on the waterfront in Washington. She traveled extensively and loved to cook.

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   When did Mollie Orshansky die?

   • Mollie Orshansky in 1971. SSA History Archives. In December 2006, Mollie Orshansky, known to many as Ms. Poverty, died at age 91 after a long government career during which she did pioneering research on poverty and the measurement of income inadequacy.

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   What did Samuel Orshansky do for a living?

   • Samuel Orshansky was a plumber and ironworker, but was often unemployed; he and his wife spoke only a little English. The family were Jewish and Mollie was the third of her parents' six daughters. The six girls shared three beds and often had to depend of charity to provide their food.

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   When did Mollie Orshansky retire?

   • She retired from the Social Security Administration in 1982 after more than 40 years of Federal government service. Mollie Orshansky was always modest about her accomplishments in developing the poverty thresholds. She constantly strove to improve their measurement.

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2. aspe.hhs.gov › topics › poverty-economic-mobilityMollie Orshansky: Her Career, Achievements, and Publications

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   In December 2006, Mollie Orshansky, known to many as Ms. Poverty, died at age 91 after a long government career during which she did pioneering research on poverty and the measurement of income inadequacy….”

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   This shows that Mollie was working with USDA 's food plans at least 15 years before she used them to develop her poverty thresholds. As a food economist from 1953 to 1958, she planned and directed the collection and analysis of data on food consumption and expenditures of American households.

4. www.nytimes.com › 2007/04/17 › usMollie Orshansky, Statistician, Dies at 91 - The New York Times

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   Miss Orshansky devised more than 120 poverty thresholds, adjusting her calculations for family size and composition and rural-urban differences. She published her research in a seminal 1965...

5. socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu › orshansky-mollieOrshansky, Mollie - Social Welfare History Project

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   Mar 6, 2018 · Mollie Orshansky was born in New York City in 1915, the daughter of immigrants from what is now Ukraine (Chan 2006, 4; Cassidy 2006, 42). Although her father worked hard at a number of different jobs, Mollie and her sisters grew up poor—in her words, the family could “barely…make ends meet” (Social Security Administration 1971, 15–16 ...

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   Over the course of her long life – she lived until the age of 91 – Mollie was very smart, independent, and a hardworking government employee. She was called Miss Poverty because she developed the poverty index widely used by the Federal government as a basis for benefit programs involving low income individuals and families.

7. www.npr.org › 2007/04/21 › 9750949Mollie Orshansky: Inventor of the Poverty Line : NPR

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   Apr 21, 2007 · Playlist. While working for the federal government, Mollie Orshansky came up with the government's official definition of the poverty line. It was an achievement that Orshansky herself...

8. mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk › Biographies › OrshanskyMollie Orshansky (1915 - 2006) - Biography - MacTutor History ...

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   Dec 18, 2006 · 9 January 1915. Bronx, New York City, USA. Died. 18 December 2006. Manhattan, New York City, USA. Summary. Mollie Orshansky was an American economist and statistician who developed the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds, used for measuring household incomes. View four larger pictures. Biography.