poverty line

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Many of the families live or work in or near the Vermont Vista neighborhood, where more than a quarter of residents live below the poverty line, according to 2023 census data.

From Los Angeles Times

Lately there has been talk of a $140,000 poverty line for a family of four.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From MarketWatch

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

From MarketWatch