Guy Henderson Orcutt, Distinguished Fellow of our Association. has now moved to a new phase of his career (retirement). Most of Guy's career has been at four universities: Michigan, where he earned all three degrees, Harvard, Wisconsin, and Yale. In between, he spent periods at MIT, Cambridge...

The problem addressed in this article is that of finding levels of income which typify equivalent levels of poverty for families in different circumstances. An index is constructed which has, as components, descriptions of family circumstances-such as number of persons and geographical location....