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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Some students are assigned additional dollars, such as those who have special needs, are multilingual or live below the poverty line.
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Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2024
In Pomona, home to about 146,000 people, roughly three-quarters of residents are Latino and about 12% live below the poverty line.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
Lebanon is confronting a national economic slide that has left half its citizens and more than 90% of Syrian and Palestinian refugees living here living below the poverty line, and relief agencies and the United Nations already face cash shortages.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024
One report from 2014 found that one in five households with someone working at a fast-food company had an income below the poverty line.
—Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 18 June 2024
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Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2024
In Pomona, home to about 146,000 people, roughly three-quarters of residents are Latino and about 12% live below the poverty line.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2024
Lebanon is confronting a national economic slide that has left half its citizens and more than 90% of Syrian and Palestinian refugees living here living below the poverty line, and relief agencies and the United Nations already face cash shortages.
—Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 June 2024
One report from 2014 found that one in five households with someone working at a fast-food company had an income below the poverty line.
—Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 18 June 2024
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