Sentences with phrase «forced below the poverty line»

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Since 2016, the Commonwealth government has been forced to shut down 179 primary and secondary schools, increase the sales tax to 11.5 %, and «sharply [raise] electricity and water rates,» while calling for a $ 450 million cut to the island's public university — all policies that hurt the nearly half of Puerto Ricans living below the poverty line.

Iain Duncan Smith has largely ignored warnings that people will be forced into destitution, and we want to see real action on his commitment that no one needs to live below the poverty line.

At $ 10.25, the minimum wage forces workers below the poverty line.

Many women who work full - time for low wages remain below the poverty line, and many women who can not access affordable and adequate childcare are forced into part - time and precarious employment.