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

Nearly 100 percent of students at the school live near the federal poverty line.

From Voice of San Diego

A lot of them already come from low-income families and are below the poverty line.

From Washington Post

Nearly 1 in 4 residents lives below the poverty line in Philadelphia, making it the only one of the 20 largest cities by population with a poverty rate of 20% or higher, according to the 2019 American Community Survey.

From ProPublica

Six million of those people fell under the poverty line in the past three months alone.

From Popular-Science

Of the families, 96 percent live near or below the poverty line.

From Voice of San Diego

Much more common is the African American lesbian couple in the Deep South raising children at or below the poverty line.

From The Daily Beast

It is one of the poorest places in the United States with 27 percent of its residents living below the poverty line.

From The Daily Beast

Annual wages range from $10,000-$13,000, well below the poverty line of $23,000 for a family of four.

From The Daily Beast

More than half of the population lives below the poverty line, and 20 percent in extreme poverty.

From The Daily Beast

Many states and localities provide services to families who fall under the poverty line and also in the “near-poor” category.

From The Daily Beast

And then he is confronted with the picture of the Holy Family which can never have lived much beyond the poverty line.

From Project Gutenberg

Some struggle harder than others, and maintain an existence on or just above the poverty line—these are technically the poor.

From Project Gutenberg

Charles Booth thought that thirty per cent of the people of London were on or below the poverty line.

From Project Gutenberg