Sentence examples for the poorest segment from inspiring English sources

"Children are the poorest segment of the United States population," said Wise, a Stanford Health Policy core faculty member.

In India those environmental constraints lead to high prices that the poorest segment of the population simply cannot afford".

In other words, a groom and his father in the poorest segment of society had to save their total income for eight years to afford a wedding, she reported.

In Jerome Kagan's "Three Seductive Ideas" he points out that the best predictor of who would develop serious academic or behavioral problems in adolescence was social class: more than eighty per cent of the children who got in trouble came from the poorest segment of the sample.

It does not, in and of itself, make a value judgment on whether 29 rupees is enough for a dignified life; it is simply a tool that allows the government to track the poorest segment of the population, calibrated so that about a third of the total population comes in under this benchmark.

The poorest segment of the population qualifies for similar private insurance paid by the government.

In developing countries in tropical regions, the poorest segments of the rural population often rely on forests for survival.

"Apart from the sheer magnitude of the costs, the disproportionate impacts on the poorest segments of the population make air pollution a threat to shared and inclusive prosperity.

Others will seize on them as proof that the government accepts that the living standards of the poorest segments of society have been falling, despite Tory claims that the average family's fortunes are improving.

The economy is crumbling quickly and although the poorest segments of Syrian society have suffered its inefficiencies, capriciousness, and impending collapse since even before the first protests, the middle class is finally starting to understand its own precarious position.

Our theoretical and empirical findings therefore suggest that in developing country settings characterized by relatively high income inequality, an expansion in public preschool supply will likely significantly increase enrollment among the poorest segments of society, and need not have adverse effects on the quantity or quality of local private supply.