Sentences with phrase «see below the poverty line»

To complete the piece, he took away one of the pennies, plunging everything we see below the poverty line.

Not exact matches

Growing up in the second poorest county in Illinois, where many families below the poverty line depended on venison from hunting to get through the winter, the only times I saw people like me on TV were in Dukes of Hazard reruns (my own family has a storied moonshining history) and in a VHS copy of the 1974 film Where the Red Fern Grows.

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.

«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.

Maybe not after seeing The Florida Project, which tells a story behind the statistic that in the US, 35 % of single - mother families live below the poverty line.

There are about twice as many non-Hispanic whites as blacks living below 150 percent of the poverty line in the U.S.. It's a fair bet that their kids aren't doing very well in school — and that they see Donald Trump as «my guy.»

Not all of these people are living below the poverty line; some have voluntarily simplified their lives, and don't see the need to add internet into the mix.

I grew up so far below the poverty line that you couldn't see it from my window, no matter how clear the day was.

When installing the work Dean removed one coin, so that the money you see before you represents one penny below the UK poverty line for a family four.

In Ontario that income level is well below the «poverty line»; see: R. v. Moodie, 2016 ONSC 3469 (May 26, 2016, Nordheimer J.).