Sentence examples for poverty living from inspiring English sources

It is not just the extremes of wealth and poverty living side by side.

At the same time, all the new measures show many more people in "near poverty" — living on incomes between 100 percent and 150 percent of the poverty line.

It shows that most local authorities - but particularly those in London and Scotland - are extremely polarised, with wealth and poverty living side by side.

But, as he recently acknowledged, over 60 percent of Angolan families remain mired in extreme poverty, living on less than $1.70 per day and without proper shelter — a problem that Beijing hasn't helped him solve.

This is absolute poverty: living in a hut of mud and thatch, walking long distances each day to fetch unsafe water, feeding your family only what you can grow yourself.

Mr Sen argues that if we simply focus on eradicating extreme poverty (living on less than $1.25 a day), we will miss important social ills that are unrelated to income.

Even more damningly, half of all people in poverty live in a working family.

The manifesto notes that half of those in poverty live in working households, and many used food banks last year.

It's tough ask: only 4% of families in fuel poverty live in a band C rated home.

At the turn of the century, 60% of children and adults in poverty lived in workless families.

Millions of people in poverty live in UK households where at least one person works, the Living Wage Commission has said.