An estimated 450m of these smallholdings exist worldwide, typically providing a subsistence-at-best income for more than 2 billion of the poorest people on the planet.
Unlike Ephron, I'm a subsistence cook at best: my specialty is a Turkish spinach-lentil soup from the cookbook "Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant" which I haven't actually prepared in three years.
Employers do have the incentive to pay workers a subsistence wage at which they can guarantee a supply of labor.
The landfill is perceived not only as an environmental scourge but also as a threat to subsistence at a time of rising unemployment.
The remainder of the memorandum states that the government "keep the Baha'i's illiterate and uneducated, living only at a subsistence level, and fearful at every moment that even the tiniest infraction will bring the threat of imprisonment or worse".
Longfield rejected the belief (postulated by Ricardo and Thomas Malthus) that wages would remain stuck at a subsistence level.
Judge Korman ruled that many of those survivors were living at a subsistence level, some fighting off starvation.
Generally, the low‐paid immigrant laborers from South India have been been living at a subsistence level for generations.
