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Meanings of poverty threshold in English

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 line"
Examples for "poverty line"
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The poverty line for household income is currently set at 720 ringgit.
Reuters
2
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
5
More than a quarter of the people live below the poverty line.
Reuters
Usage of poverty threshold in English
1
More than half of its population live below the poverty threshold.
The South African
2
Eighty-eight percent of the population lived under the poverty threshold.
Pubmed
3
One reason is that the U.S. govern­ment has already been raising the poverty threshold too quickly.
Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy
4
The minimum income standard differs from the poverty threshold, which stands at 60% of median household income.
The Guardian
5
Advocates of higher hourly pay say full-time workers are kept below the poverty threshold for a family of four at the current wage.
Reuters
6
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.
State of the Union Addresses
7
In a report, it also highlighted the "nearly poor", those just above the poverty threshold by a marginal 10-50 euros a month.
Reuters
8
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.
Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy