The official U.S.poverty definition is an income sufficient to provide
A)Minimum biological needs
B)Three times the cost of an economy food budget
C)The income of the poorest 8% of the families
D)The average U.S.welfare allowance
E)None of the above

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The official U.S. poverty definition uses a measure based on three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, updated annually for inflation using the Consumer Price Index. This approach was developed in the early 1960s by Mollie Orshansky, an economist at the Social Security Administration.

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