Sentence examples for marker of poverty from inspiring English sources

Shoeless feet appear time and again in Caravaggio's art, and from him this marker of poverty was adopted by other baroque artists.

It has acknowledged, however, that the food budget is a pretty poor marker of poverty today, when Americans spend a much smaller share of their budgets on food and more on things like child care and medical expenses.

Like the majority of the 60 million people who now live in the country's roughly 300,000 private communities, Ms. Saylor was forbidden to dry her laundry outside because many people viewed it as an eyesore, not unlike storing junk cars in driveways, and a marker of poverty that lowers property values.

These children often come from the poorest households, making stunting a key marker of poverty and inequality.

In Ireland, among the elderly, living alone is a marker of poverty and experiencing multiple types of enforced deprivation [ 47].

Patients in Bangladesh typically have to buy their own medicines, 32 and receiving no antibiotics could be a marker of poverty, which may be more common among malnourished children who are at increased risk of hospital-acquired infection.

There are very many markers of poverty in the playground – from the kids without a warm winter coat or waterproof shoes, to the more subtle social index of parties and playdates – but free school meals need not be one of them (at my children's primary school, no one had a clue who was on free dinners).

In our survey, a socioeconomic marker of extreme poverty (no sewage disposal) remained associated with anti-HCV prevalence (OR = 2.53), after adjusting for confounding factors.

The results for hepatitis C for the whole country showed that no sewage disposal, a marker of extreme poverty, was associated with anti-hepatitis C virus prevalence.

"It's become a marker for poverty, having these [lenders] on the high street," she says.

Homelessness as a marker of social status and extreme poverty may lead to more perceived discrimination than race/ethnicity.