Sentence examples for poverty calculations from inspiring English sources

On Nov. 4, 2011, The Times reported the findings of its own study of poverty calculations.

Enlisted sailors' salaries barely exceed federal poverty guidelines, though the military is excluded from these poverty calculations.

Regardless, focusing on earnings captures the incentive effects of the EITC, and in that sense, this analysis provides a rather strict test of the power of the EITC to increase income from work, by excluding the work-contingent transfers of the EITC (which are also excluded from official US poverty calculations).

Ms. Jones receives food stamps, a noncash assistance program the census poverty calculation does not count.

Those raids have set off echoes of past violence among the three generations of refugees who are trapped by poverty, political calculation and their own longing for plots of the land in what is now Israel.

A Department of Homeland Security proposal, if implemented, could put at least 670,000 more children ― 560,000 of whom are U.S. citizens ― at risk of moving into poverty, by our calculations.

According to the two income-based methods of calculation, poverty is increasing; according to the consumption-based method, it is decreasing.

"It has become clear that it was never the government's intention to improve the credibility, clarity or transparency of its statistics," she says.Ms Bevacqua points out that INDEC has also stopped publishing poverty statistics, the calculation of which depends in part on inflation numbers.

The mayor's own set of guidelines to challenge the federal calculation defining poverty makes New York City one of the first local governments to move from a long-outdated measure to one that factors in actual costs to survive as well as the economic value of public benefits.

Those on the left of the chart are living at less than 100percentt of the supplemental poverty measure, an alternative calculation of the poverty line.

Table 5 Macroeconomic crisis changes in output, poverty and inequality Source: own calculations based on National Accounts and EPH Crisis Output Changes Poverty Inequality 1982 −5 3 −0.7 1985 −9 2 −3 1989 −11 25 6.3 1995 −4 5 2.7 2002 −17 24 3.6.