How to Use the poverty line in a Sentence

the poverty line

noun
Definition of the poverty linenext
  • And the other is, 85 percent of Lebanese are now below the poverty line.
    — Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Many of the bloc's 8.7 million farm workers are close to or below the poverty line.
    — Raf Casert, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
  • More than 15% of its people live below the poverty line.
    — Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Yet many people remain poor or live just above the poverty line.
    — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • More than a quarter of the town’s residents live below the poverty line.
    — Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2023
  • More than a third now live below the poverty line, per the latest census data.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 21 Oct. 2024
  • More than half of their residents live below the poverty line.
    — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • More than 20% of residents live below the poverty line, the report says.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • But that’s not the case for the 25 million uninsured Americans or the 50 million who are below the poverty line.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune Well, 20 May 2024
  • As the richest class gets richer and more households fall below the poverty line, many are noticing a shift.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 4 June 2024
  • There are more than 11 million single mothers in this country and 38% of them live below the poverty line.
    — Mary McNamara, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024
  • The thinking goes like this: As parents receive strings-free cash, many of their incomes will indeed be pushed above the poverty line.
    — Oshan Jarow, Vox, 17 Sep. 2024
  • About 42% of residents lived below the poverty line and about 44% of households were single moms.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
  • Children living below the poverty line are the most in need of a math intervention.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In a small town where many of the residents lived below the poverty line, a number of homes were uninsured and so may never be replaced.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 1 May 2024
  • Without it, millions of seniors would fall below the poverty line.
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The research shows there is a gap between children who live below the poverty line and those who come from wealthy families.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The small number of metrics that do exist (e.g. the poverty line) are often poorly defined.
    — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • About a quarter of Iraqis live at or below the poverty line, according to Iraq’s Planning Ministry.
    — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Many of them grew up below the poverty line, are minorities, or former convicts.
    — Sixteen Ramos, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The economy is in recession and more than 40% of Argentines live below the poverty line.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The economy is in recession and 40% of the population lives below the poverty line.
    — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Nearly 60% of those ending a pregnancy already have children, and about half live at or below the poverty line.
    — Kelsey Butler, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
  • That's below the poverty line for a family of four in California.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Zimmerman said about 80% of the district’s families live below the poverty line.
    — Jason Gonzales, The Denver Post, 6 May 2024
  • Nearly half the city’s population lives beneath the poverty line.
    — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 17 May 2023
  • More than half the largely Latino residents live below the poverty line, and many are families.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The percentage of people in the Raleigh metro living below the poverty line reached its lowest point in over a decade last year, census data released this month shows.
    — Lucille Sherman, Axios, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Three-quarters of the population has since been pushed below the poverty line, and shortages, power cuts, and surging prices have become facts of life.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Coup sends poverty soaring Three years since Myanmar’s military took power in a coup, nearly half of the country’s 54 million people live below the poverty line.
    — Teele Rebane, CNN, 30 Aug. 2024

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