Sentence examples for the current poverty from inspiring English sources

Mr Duncan Smith's argument that the current poverty line isn't an effective measure.

The current poverty threshold for a family of four twoo adults and two children) is a little under $21,000.

Perhaps Mr. Apple and his colleagues should first assess their own practices before they blame candidates for the current poverty of substantive political discourse in the United States.

Ronald Reagan began the process of dismantling that minimal safety net, and as a result the current poverty level is close to 16 percent, and food stamps are not fully doing their job.

An even sharper criticism of poverty measures, generally, comes from Shawn Fremstad of the C.E.P.R.: There is broad recognition that the current poverty line ($21,756 for a family of four in 2009) falls far below the amount of income needed to "make ends meet" at a basic level.

That's because the new law offers insurance subsidies to eligible incomes up to 400 percent of the current poverty line, a fiscal burden that would be unsustainable if it replaced Medicaid, which, with all its problems, is now the cheapest way to provide basic insurance coverage.

Employment, poverty, and inequality rates have either stagnated and/or shockingly increased in recent years, while there is a necessity to revisit the scope -- deepening support for existing beneficiaries as opposed to expanding the list of beneficiaries -- of the current poverty-alleviating measures such as the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) scheme.

Birmingham was the first city in the Deep South to enact a higher local minimum wage than the current poverty-level federal minimum of $7.25, and the city recently moved up its plan to implement a $10.10 minimum wage to last week as the state legislature rushed to block it.

The Annual Family Income measure requires the interviewer to have information on current poverty levels from the U.S. Census Bureau.

These Africans are generally coconut-heads who know and care nothing about the origins of Africa's current poverty and are satisfied with their own lives and so callously imagine that everyone else in Africa enjoys their bourgeois comforts.

Not only for our study purpose, but also in the broader frame of Malawi's current poverty reduction strategies, a deeper understanding of such contextual factors modulating utilization and accessibility of reproductive health services will be of value to a variety of national population development programs [ 70].