Sentence examples for below a defined poverty from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, the overall goal of the programme is improvement of maternal and child health, rather than poverty reduction, and therefore there is no need to restrict the CCT to women below a defined poverty line.

Different aspects of the residential environment are captured through area-based residential (ABR) measures, most often constructed by aggregating or mathematically summarizing the characteristics of individuals residing within an area (e.g., proportion of residents living below federally defined poverty, mean income level of residents in an area).

More than 48% of the island's people live below the federally defined poverty line.

When the study began, 68percentt of the children were from families living below the federally defined poverty line.

The People's livelihood is emphasized year after year, yet hundreds of millions of people still live below the internationally defined poverty line.

Poverty measures included the proportion of the population living below the federally defined poverty level as determined by the annual household size adjusted income.

The following SES measures were obtained: proportion of the population with 1999 income below the federally defined poverty level, median household income in 1999, and percentage of persons ≥ 25 years of age whose highest degree was less than a high school diploma or its equivalent.

We used the following census-derived measures of socioeconomic position (SEP): median income (median household income in 1999); percentage of persons below the federally defined poverty line; and percentage of persons ≥25 years of age whose highest degree was less than a high school diploma or its equivalent.

Medicaid has become an issue in this debate because the Affordable Care Act made extra funding available to states that expanded eligibility for their programs, so that anybody in households with income below or just above the federally defined poverty line can qualify.

His cash income, $4,320 a year, puts him $8,240 below the poverty line--a threshold the government uses to define poverty for a family his size.

The JRF defines poverty as "when a person's resources are well below their minimum needs".