What is the mandated poverty line in the United States?

Question

How much is it?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean by "mandated". There are a number of different measures. Here is a link to how the Bureau of the Census measures it:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/p...

But the Department of health and Human Services also has its own (different) measure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_...

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/povmeas/p...

And, of course, there are many critics of both:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_thr...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measuring_p...