In 1963 economist Mollie Orshansky created this "line" by multiplying the cost of an adequate diet by 3
... consisted of the cost of a minimum adequate diet multiplied by three to 
allow ..... Rather, the poverty threshold reflects in today's dollars the line that was 
set... [DOC] [TLE] A Poverty Line That's Out of Date and Out of Favor - The New York ... [PAR] Mar 12, 2006 ... Economists have long argued that the poverty line should be revised ... 
untouched since 1963, when Mollie Orshansky, an economist at the Social ...