How to Use poverty line in a Sentence

poverty line

noun

• In the meantime, Mallinson is forced to live below the poverty line.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2021
• An unimaginable 97 percent of Afghans may fall below the poverty line by the end of the year.
  — Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2022
• About 40% of Puerto Ricans live at or below the poverty line.
  — Anisha Kohli, Time, 17 Dec. 2022
• Many folks who live close to the poverty line didn’t have to pay a dime in premiums, which goes a long way in getting covered.
  — Bob Herman, STAT, 17 Aug. 2022
• That’s about $800 more than the federal poverty line for a family of two.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• At the end of the war, about 60% of the Salvadoran population lived along the national poverty line.
  — Jessica Diaz-Hurtado, refinery29.com, 3 June 2022
• More than 50% of the population here now lives below the poverty line.
  — Ben Wedeman, CNN, 3 Aug. 2021
• Sometimes there’s a lower poverty line in places in the South where housing costs are much lower.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2023
• As a single mother living below the poverty line, her whole life is a series of punches to the chest.
  — Mariah Tauger, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
• Utah households must be at or below 130% of the federal poverty line.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2023
• For those living below the poverty line, this is ~2% of their daily income.
  — Stephen Kafeero, Quartz, 3 July 2021
• More than a quarter of the city's population lives below the poverty line.
  — Priya Krishnakumar, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021
• About one in four Black residents was living below the poverty line in 2021.
  — Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
• More than 18 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• People living in homes below the poverty line also tend to live in areas that have less green space.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
• There’s a sizable gap between the classes, with many living below the poverty line.
  — Samia Qaiyum, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2021
• More than a third of Californians are living at or near the poverty line.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• About a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line.
  — Ted Alcorn, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2021
• About a third are children, and most have incomes below the federal poverty line.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• According to the mayor, about a third of the city's population lives below the poverty line.
  — Ed Lavandera, Ashley Killough and Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
• According to the same report, 19% of the population lives below the poverty line.
  — Olivia Osteen, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2022
• Nine percent of Hawaii residents lived below the poverty line in 2019.
  — NBC News, 10 Feb. 2022
• Alexandra Cristin spent most of her childhood living below the poverty line.
  — Amy Shoenthal, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• More than half of the country's population lives under the poverty line.
  — Caitlin Hu, CNN, 23 July 2021
• More than 50 percent of the population now lives below the poverty line.
  — Natalie Gallón, CNN, 8 June 2021
• About 23% of the population lives either at or below the poverty line, nearly double the 12% of metro Phoenix.
  — AZCentral.com, 17 June 2021
• Back-to-school spending isn’t a new problem for Muyonjo and his family, who have been below the poverty line for much of the last three years.
  — Collin Robisheaux, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• Nearly a fifth of El Cajon lives below the poverty line, and recent surveys in the region show a rise in the number of people on the streets or in shelters.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
• Only 14% of that group said they were enrolled in the city’s Fair Fares program, which offers half-off transit fares for those making less than the federal poverty line.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 29 July 2024
• Commit to not selling the medical debt of patients with income below 300% of the federal poverty line.
  — Lucille Sherman, Axios, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024