Sentence examples for edge of poverty from inspiring English sources

In some cases, Ehrenreich found, there had been little change: those living on the edge of poverty in 2001 were still living on the edge of poverty.

His father's flower business failed, and the family teetered on the edge of poverty.

Working at the edge of poverty means working on the coldest side of corporate America.

On the edge of poverty, Silvestre and Mariana rent their spare room to a lodger, Abel.

Roughly half of South Africans are either poor or on the edge of poverty, economists say.

Sheldon: For people who live on the edge of poverty, it's a dynamic process.

But people in or on the edge of poverty experience the real-life consequences of this depletion of the resources.

That scale of loss, the children's charity Barnardo's said, would tip youngsters on the edge of poverty into destitution.

Ms. Leontitsis concedes that she is on the edge of poverty, but she said: "I don't fancy myself Section 8. I'm 77.

His father died in a German prison camp during World War I, and he was raised by his mother on the edge of poverty.

Some local sociologists say that around half the population is doing fine by developing-country standards, whereas the other half is living on the edge of poverty.