They called it a "living wage," a level of income that would cover basic needs.
Three experts in disaster planning offer advice on putting together a kit to cover basic needs during a winter emergency.
A desperate person does not enter into such arrangements freely; there is such a thing as a "just wage" – sufficient to cover basic needs – whatever the market determines.
Because benefit payments tend to be spent right away to cover basic needs like food and rent, they provide a direct boost to consumer spending.
Churlish Corbynites might complain that the £9 or so which over-25s will have to be paid by 2020 is still well below any realistic estimate of the income required to cover basic needs – rent, food, bills and so on.
The funding will help cover basic needs of refugees and host communities such as healthcare, clean water, shelter, rent and education," said Christos Stylianides, the European commissioner for humanitarian aid and crisis management.
Here in Henan's rural Gushi County, only 73,000 of 1.4 million farmers fall below the official poverty level of $94 a year, which is supposed to be enough to cover basic needs, including maintaining a daily diet of 2,000 calories.
Only 18 percent of households headed by single mothers are living with economic security, while two-thirds of Hispanic households and 62 percent of African-American households are not earning enough to cover basic needs and saving requirements.
