poverty line
a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.
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How to use poverty line in a sentence
Nearly 100 percent of students at the school live near the federal poverty line.
A lot of them already come from low-income families and are below the poverty line.
This preschool director drives an Uber so she can buy gifts for kids who wouldn’t otherwise have Christmas presents | Sydney Page | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostNearly 1 in 4 residents lives below the poverty line in Philadelphia, making it the only one of the 20 largest cities by population with a poverty rate of 20% or higher, according to the 2019 American Community Survey.
Pennsylvania’s New Vote-by-Mail Law Expands Access for Everyone Except the Poor | by Jonathan Lai, Samantha Melamed and Michaelle Bond, The Philadelphia Inquirer | October 22, 2020 | ProPublicaSix million of those people fell under the poverty line in the past three months alone.
One motorcycle rally may have triggered COVID-19′s new Midwest surge | Rachael Zisk | October 19, 2020 | Popular-ScienceOf the families, 96 percent live near or below the poverty line.
The Learning Curve: School Is Now an Antidote Few Families Can Access | Will Huntsberry | September 24, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Much more common is the African American lesbian couple in the Deep South raising children at or below the poverty line.
State of LGBT Rights: Married on Sunday, but Fired on Monday | Gene Robinson | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is one of the poorest places in the United States with 27 percent of its residents living below the poverty line.
Annual wages range from $10,000-$13,000, well below the poverty line of $23,000 for a family of four.
More than half of the population lives below the poverty line, and 20 percent in extreme poverty.
Many states and localities provide services to families who fall under the poverty line and also in the “near-poor” category.
And then he is confronted with the picture of the Holy Family which can never have lived much beyond the poverty line.
Our Lady Saint Mary | J. G. H. BarrySome struggle harder than others, and maintain an existence on or just above the poverty line—these are technically the poor.
Society | Henry Kalloch RoweCharles Booth thought that thirty per cent of the people of London were on or below the poverty line.
Society | Henry Kalloch Rowe
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