Sentence examples for poorest ten from inspiring English sources

Poverty remains pervasive: the city has the poorest ten square miles in the country.

The poorest ten per cent will get less than nothing, because the public services on which they rely will have to be trimmed.

WOW," and linked to a chart showing that the poorest ten per cent of Americans had experienced the most growth, seeing their cumulative earnings rise by 7.9percentnt in 2015.

If you place a dollar valuation on health insurance, then, according to the White House's calculations, the A.C.A. boosted by almost a fifth the share of post-tax income received by the poorest ten per cent of U.S. households.

The increases will hit the poorest ten per cent of the population six times harder than the richest ten per cent – as a percentage of their disposable income – because energy takes up much more of their budget, according to the research by the IPPR think tank.

One of first things students learn is that, in 2014, the "90/10 ratio"—the average income of the richest ten per cent of households divided by the average income of the poorest ten per cent was 5.4 in Norway, sixteen in the United States, and a hundred and forty-five in Botswana.

For the poorest five per cent, there was no increase.

Meanwhile, the poorest three billion people continue to earn less than $1.25 daily.

The effect is predictable: in 1960 the poorest billion people earned 2.3% of world income.

Above all, Banerjee and Duflo take the poorest billion people as they find them.

Three out of four of the poorest billion people of the world are women.