These numbers can be compared to the "minimum subsistence level" (MSL) calculated on the background of minimal need for foods, goods and services.
It is very expensive to provide guarantees of subsistence, minimal public health measures, and basic education.
For Shue, minimal economic security, or subsistence, entails "unpolluted air, unpolluted water, adequate food, adequate clothing, adequate shelter, and minimal preventive public health care [ 23].
Second, subsistence populations with minimal medical access are characteristic of our evolutionary past, and may be informative about the role of vascular disease in the biology of aging during the long course of human evolution.
If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promised a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not.
During Guevara's time living hidden among the poor subsistence farmers of the Sierra Maestra mountains, he discovered that there were no schools, no electricity, minimal access to healthcare, and more than 40 percent of the adults were illiterate.
With minimal goods for sale, people are expected to bring with them whatever they need for a week's subsistence in the desert and to trade for any items they might lack.
In San Rafael, the need to pay for services previously provided at no or minimal cost strained most of the study sample's household budgets to the point where all resources went to meeting basic subsistence needs, and many could not fully cover these expenses.
