living standard

Three-quarters of Asian-Americans report that their living standard surpasses that of their parents.

The minimum decent living standard--aka the poverty line--does rise along with national wealth.

This need for distinction through consumption has set a living standard which the less well-to-do families seek to emulate.

And the man with the wooden leg, as well as other park attendants, had their wages brought up to the living standard.

But it is true that the living standard is going down all the time, isn't it?