Sentence examples for current poverty from inspiring English sources

Mr Duncan Smith's argument that the current poverty line isn't an effective measure.

The current poverty threshold for a family of four twoo adults and two children) is a little under $21,000.

Perhaps Mr. Apple and his colleagues should first assess their own practices before they blame candidates for the current poverty of substantive political discourse in the United States.

These Africans are generally coconut-heads who know and care nothing about the origins of Africa's current poverty and are satisfied with their own lives and so callously imagine that everyone else in Africa enjoys their bourgeois comforts.

The poverty rate is almost six times higher for one-parent families headed by women than it is for those with two parents.The breakdown in the traditional two-parent family does much to account for America's current poverty.

Ronald Reagan began the process of dismantling that minimal safety net, and as a result the current poverty level is close to 16 percent, and food stamps are not fully doing their job.

Employment, poverty, and inequality rates have either stagnated and/or shockingly increased in recent years, while there is a necessity to revisit the scope -- deepening support for existing beneficiaries as opposed to expanding the list of beneficiaries -- of the current poverty-alleviating measures such as the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme.

Birmingham was the first city in the Deep South to enact a higher local minimum wage than the current poverty-level federal minimum of $7.25, and the city recently moved up its plan to implement a $10.10 minimum wage to last week as the state legislature rushed to block it.

This means that, though current rural poverty stands at 39% - higher than urban poverty of 11% - urban households are comparatively more vulnerable to (future) poverty.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is showing both vision and courage in challenging the current official poverty level.

From our perch, however, we know that it takes at least twice the current federal poverty level to make ends meet -- so accurate measurement matters!