Sentence examples for subsistence levels from inspiring English sources

Most people in Panem live at subsistence levels, working to feed the cavernous hungers of the Capital's citizens.

Potential sponsors are already alienated, and television income is on subsistence levels.

The rural population was reduced to subsistence levels, bartering with cattle and bags of paddy.

For example, Maddison assumes that African GDP before 1820 remained more or less at subsistence levels.

It therefore made no sense to try to grind their wages down to subsistence levels".

As late as the early 20th century, capital brutally suppressed labor and ground down wages to subsistence levels.

A true, subsistence level basic income would close to double that.

"By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level.

One had lost its drummer "because he couldn't bear living at subsistence level any longer".

There is no electricity and the farming is at subsistence level.

"There's no comfort in living on a subsistence level," Mr. Dumpson said.