Sentence examples for poverty below from inspiring English sources

That would include another 800,000 in "absolute" poverty: below a set benchmark representing the necessary income to afford the basics of life.

Even Metropolis, in which wealthy intellectuals in dazzling towers rule machine-wielding workers living in abject poverty below, was about "today" rather than "tomorrow".

He said the 10 economic goals he outlined were attainable, given the nation's current prosperity, including cutting poverty below 10percentt, raising the level of home ownership and creating 10 million new high-technology jobs.

Bukele was running in Nuevo Cuscatlán, a small town on the outskirts of the capital, whose elites (the Bukeles among them) resided in hilltop mansions, while the rest of the population lived in poverty below.

Or, very pointedly, "I think it's really interesting to come from a background of knowing that kind of poverty, because when you hear [politicians saying,] 'It's a time of austerity for all of us, we must all scale back' – you know there's just a level of poverty below which you can't scale back.

For this reason, we employ this indicator in our estimate of households in accessibility poverty below.

3 Deprivation is high in this population with a sixth of rural pensioners living below the poverty threshold (below 60% of median income).

Last year, the percentage of people living in extreme poverty dropped below 10% for the first time.

The programs, government officials contend, have helped reduce poverty to below 30percentt of the population.

By the federal measure, 7.7 percent of New Yorkers were living in extreme poverty, meaning below 50 percent of the poverty line.

From this perspective, it would seem difficult to defend any poverty line below, say, $5 a day.