Sentence examples for a poverty level from inspiring English sources
The politics of determining a poverty level are intense because the number largely determines eligibility for numerous federal entitlement programs.
Most of the population, which has a poverty level more than twice the national average, is feeling increasingly depressed about the isolation and a sense of creeping abandonment.
A study issued today by the World Bank reported that almost two million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are living below a poverty level of $2 a day, triple the number before the conflict began with Israel more than two years ago.
According to the report, "These families do not have the savings or other assets to cover basic expenses (equivalent to what could be purchased with a poverty level income) for three months if a layoff or other emergency leads to loss of income".
It is a developing country with a high Human Development Index score and a poverty level around 25.8 percent.
On the downside, however, Washington suffers from the second-highest level of violent crime on this list and a poverty level that nears one in five citizens.
"It's pretty hard to imagine that we're going to be recruiting great teachers if we're paying them a poverty-level or just-above-poverty-level wage".
At VISTA's founding, volunteers, who could be of any age, received a poverty-level stipend to cover their expenses and committed to one year of service when they joined.
For instance, figures compiled by the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University show that the city's unemployment rate is twice that of the state, and that one in four Newark residents earns less than a poverty-level income, and more than 40percentt of all low-income renters pay more than half their income in rent.
According to Jared Bernstein and Lawrence Mishel, economists at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, in Washington, D.C., the average rent in working-class neighborhoods of Boston is about a thousand dollars a month, which for a family of four with a poverty-level income leaves just six hundred and fifty dollars a month for food, clothing, heat, and everything else.
Very few low-wage workers on American campuses even earn a poverty-level income, let alone receive health benefits.
