Meanings of poverty threshold in anglès

More than half of its population live below the poverty threshold.

Eighty-eight percent of the population lived under the poverty threshold.

One reason is that the U.S. govern­ment has already been raising the poverty threshold too quickly.

The minimum income standard differs from the poverty threshold, which stands at 60% of median household income.

Advocates of higher hourly pay say full-time workers are kept below the poverty threshold for a family of four at the current wage.

The legislation I have proposed will help eliminate inequities by establishing a national minimum benefit, and by directly relating benefit levels to the poverty threshold.

In a report, it also highlighted the "nearly poor", those just above the poverty threshold by a marginal 10-50 euros a month.

The U.S. Census Bureau is experiment­ing with a new formula that would raise the poverty threshold for a family of four to $19,500 from $16,660.