poverty line

noun

1. a minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.

Example Sentences

The second store, going up in a section of Southwest Atlanta where roughly a quarter of residents live below the poverty line, could be more of a challenge.

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That benchmark is the poverty line, created by a Social Security Administration economist, Mollie Orshansky, in 1963, and then adopted the next year by the White House.

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It stops paying once households hit a certain income level, which is 400% above the federal poverty line.

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Despite being an oil-rich nation, about a third of Gabon's population lives below the poverty line, according to the UN.

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“And so it becomes this critical lifeline that keeps families out of deep, deep poverty. It can also be the tipping point that moves some families above the poverty line.”

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