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Meanings of poverty line in English

Portuguese
linha de pobreza
Catalan
mínim vital
Spanish
línea de pobreza

A level of personal income defining the state of poverty.

linha de pobreza
Portuguese
linha da pobreza
Spanish
linea de pobreza
Catalan
llindar de pobresa

Income level where someone is declared in poverty.

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linha da pobreza
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Examples for "poverty level"
Examples for "poverty level"
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The researchers also accounted for some other factors, like the neighborhood poverty level.
Reuters
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More than half the county residents live below the poverty level.
The Lost Continent
3
Program differences were observed in navigator type, population served, and setting by poverty level.
Pubmed
4
Less money meant less of everything, and we were already on the poverty level.
God don't like ugly
5
These are the seniors with income above 300 percent of the federal poverty level.
Reuters
Usage of poverty line in English
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The poverty line for household income is currently set at 720 ringgit.
Reuters
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More than 50 percent of the population live below the poverty line.
Reuters
3
More than one-third of its residents live below the government poverty line.
Reuters
4
Third, the promotion of a living wage set above the poverty line.
The Guardian
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More than a quarter of the people live below the poverty line.
Reuters
6
Nearly a quarter of Black women live under the official poverty line.
The new yorker
7
Increase the child grant to the food poverty line of R547 per month.
The South African
8
About 40 percent of Indians live below the poverty line, government data shows.
Reuters
9
Free tickets may be given to schoolchildren and those on the poverty line.
The Guardian
10
The men currently live below the poverty line in third-world conditions in Indonesia.
Radio NZ
11
Some 25 per cent of children live below the poverty line.
The Irish Times
12
Greed Average income compared with number of people living below the poverty line.
Wired
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Then, 13 percent of the U.S. population lived below the official poverty line.
Reuters
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But more than 100 million still live below the poverty line.
Reuters
15
Single parents are three times more likely to live below the poverty line.
The Guardian
16
Malema's claim is correct when we look at the upper bound poverty line.
The South African