Step-by-step explanation:
The poverty line is the smallest amount of money, a person or a family needs to live on; to buy what is needed and is a line which is a gulf between the rich and the poor.
The Census Bureau determines poverty status by using an official poverty measure (OPM) that compares pre - tax cash income against a threshold that is set at three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963 and adjusted for family size.