'breadline' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe the line of people waiting for free food (e.g. bread) from a charity or government assistance program. For example, "The soup kitchen draws a large breadline every day."
She is an energetic anti-poverty campaigner, infuriated by the media's vicious attacks on "benefit scroungers" and the inability of politicians and policymakers to comprehend the slender margins of breadline life.
"It's deeply worrying that these extreme levels of wealth inequality exist in Britain today, where just a handful of people have more money than millions struggling to survive on the breadline".
A year ago, a bright, unemployed 24-year old single mother in Southend summarised in a blogpost the fear, humiliation and desperation of living on the breadline.
And that familiar crown and burger logo is given a subtle twist, and a new name, in reference to the 3.7 million Hungarians living below the breadline.
More prosaically, you see it when the poverty researchers Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack report in their book Breadline Britain that over one in four households can't afford to repair or replace broken electrical goods – a proportion that has more than doubled since 1999.
They're on the breadline with minuscule budgets.
A quarter of the Russian population may be on the breadline but the rich and flashy shop with carryalls packed with rubles.Yet it is not money alone that drives this art market: national pride plays a big part.
Otherwise, even a return to brisk economic growth (something that scarcely looks likely right now) will not be enough to rescue them from the breadline.
Big economies like Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia raised their base wages from 2002 to 2011 to between two and three times the breadline.
And if her marriage goes to pieces (and half of them do), she and her child will end up on the breadline because she can expect little or no support from her husband.
Never far off the breadline at the best of times, Eritrea will need substantial food aid.
