The poverty thresholds in the United States are largely based on an adjusted measure of prices of which category or categories of goods?

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The poverty thresholds in the United States, as originally developed in the 1960s by Mollie Orshansky for the Social Security Administration, are based on the cost of food. Orshansky used the economy food plan, which was the least expensive of four nutritionally adequate food plans developed by the Department of Agriculture, and multiplied its cost by three to account for the fact that families spent about one-third of their after-tax income on food.

The Poverty Thresholds in the United States Are Largely Based