The idea of the poverty line dates back to 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, a statistician for the Social Security Administration, developed a method to measure how many families were unable to ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS ... used for statistical purposes and to help calculate poverty guidelines. The federal poverty level is the annualized income earned by a ...

Now, the federal poverty line is the same no matter where you live. Rep. Mikie Sherrill introduced a bill to require regional ...