http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060403fa_fact

Cassidy article

RELATIVELY DEPRIVED
by JOHN CASSIDY
How poor is poor?
Issue of 2006-04-03
Posted 2006-03-27

In the summer of 1963, Mollie Orshansky, a forty-eight-year-old
statistician at the Social Security Administration, in Washington, D.C.,
published an article in the Social Security Bulletin entitled "Children of
the Poor." "The wonders of science and technology applied to a generous
endowment of natural resources have wrought a way of life our grandfathers
never knew," she wrote. "Creature comforts once the hallmark of luxury have
descended to the realm of the commonplace, and the marvels of modern
industry find their way into the home of the American worker as well as
that of his boss. Yet there is an underlying disquietude reflected in our
current social literature, an uncomfortable realization that an expanding
economy has not brought gains to all in equal measure. It is reflected in
the preoccupation with counting the poor"do they number 30 million, 40
million, or 50 million? ... SNIP

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