the poverty line
noun
: the level of income that makes it possible for a person to pay for basic food, clothing, and shelter
families living below/at the poverty line
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Boric, scrambling, responded with plans to address key demands of the protest movement, including a reform of the unpopular individual-payer pension system that pushed retirees below the poverty line.
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Sammy Feldblum, The Dial, 30 Jan. 2025
Americans who earn less than 130% of the poverty line are eligible for SNAP.
—Benjamin Chrisinger, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
Zoom in: Almost all the neighborhoods with the highest homicide rates were places where at least 30% of the residents lived below the poverty line, which in 2020 was about $26,200 in income for a household of four.
—Russell Contreras, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
The skinnier version of the child tax credit expansion in last week’s House bill would lift about 400,000 of them back above the poverty line.
—Bridget Grumet, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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Sammy Feldblum, The Dial, 30 Jan. 2025
Americans who earn less than 130% of the poverty line are eligible for SNAP.
—Benjamin Chrisinger, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025
Zoom in: Almost all the neighborhoods with the highest homicide rates were places where at least 30% of the residents lived below the poverty line, which in 2020 was about $26,200 in income for a household of four.
—Russell Contreras, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
The skinnier version of the child tax credit expansion in last week’s House bill would lift about 400,000 of them back above the poverty line.
—Bridget Grumet, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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“The poverty line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20poverty%20line. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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