Sentence examples for poverty standards from inspiring English sources

The bedroom tax row came as the TUC published research claiming that just over half of all children will be living in below minimum income poverty standards within two years as a result of the government's welfare and tax reforms.

"Eligibility for farm subsidies is determined by crop, not by income or poverty standards," Heritage notes.

Pensioners struggle to get by on sums lower than the World Bank's poverty standard.

Like a line in the sand, an absolute poverty standard shows whether the economic tide is moving in or out.

At Miami Dade College, 46 percent of our students live beneath the federal poverty standard, and 67 percent are low income.

Income poverty aggregates within a country using actual or imputed prices (these are critical for fixing the income poverty standard across countries and time).

"We should bear in mind that this poverty standard is very low," Mr. Wang said, echoing the view of many Chinese economists.

The 42-year-old federal poverty standard, which is pegged to the annual cost of buying basic groceries, is widely viewed as outdated and off-target.

In developing the new programs, however, the city discovered a serious obstacle: the federal poverty standard was all but useless in assessing whether the efforts were having an effect.

Uganda and Cambodia, for example, have been notably successful in cutting the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 a day (adjusted for purchasing power), the World Bank's global poverty standard.

In a 2008 paper Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion of the World Bank noted that China's rural poverty line was "one of the lowest lines in the developing world".So how generous is 2,300 yuan by international standards?Some news reports (see here) implied that China's new line still falls below the World Bank's global poverty standard of $1.25 a day.