Sentences with phrase «just below the poverty line»

«So what we have seen in the past is that governments respond by thinking much of the answer is to redistribute money through the tax and benefit system giving families an extra pound here or there so they move from just below the poverty line to just above it.

Even falling just below the poverty line has a significant negative effect.

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It currently serves more than one million children below the poverty line, just under half of all eligible children, and it receives almost $ 8 billion in annual funding.

We were living below the poverty line and just didn't have the money.

In addition to the environmental pollution, the median income in Richmond is just $ 54,012 and about 13.4 % of families and 16.2 % of the population live below the poverty line.

In a city where 50 % of African American children under the age of 19 live in poverty [1] and 35 % of African American residents live below the poverty line [2], college is still too often just a luxury for some students, not an option for all.

I learned that 1.4 million veterans live below the poverty line and another 1.4 million live just above it.