Scaping By: Ehrenreich Interview

j.f. noonan jfn1 at msc.com
Wed May 16 13:19:49 PDT 2001


On Wed, 16 May 2001, Doug Henwood wrote:


> michael pugliese wrote:
>
> > Last week, All Things Considered interviewed the statistician
> >at the Dept. of Labor who came up with the basket of goods guidelines
> >for poverty for a family of X back in the 60's.
>
> Who? Are you thinking of the Social Security Admin economist
> Mollie Orshansky?

Yes, I think that's her name, I heard the piece too. She apparently did it rather ad hoc because someone in the LBJ admin asker her to, never expecting it to be enshrined forever in law.

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Joseph Noonan Houston, TX jfn1 at msc.com



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