Sentences with phrase «think poverty line»
Salaries for the average mixed martial arts fighter reflect the nascent popularity of the sport (think poverty line), but a few of the fighters who won their bouts on Saturday made out like bandits.
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And I think about the parents who don't have the time or money or resources or food knowledge to pack their kids» lunch, from the single mom of my son's friend who has a super-high-powered job and no time, to the kids at his school who are well below the poverty line whose parents can't afford to pack lunch for them.
Thinking about the impact of arriving in the UK with nothing, probably in a fragile state of health, mentally and physically, not being allowed to work, and living on sums which I am told are some 60 % below the poverty line, I decided that merely expressing concern was inadequate.
«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.
I thought briefly about voting for John Anderson, a Republican who was running as an independent, but ultimately gravitated to someone with even less of a chance, Barry Commoner, running on his own Citizens» Party line, who had written worthwhile books on poverty and the environment.
«I do think, overall, there is a common theme about people who are at or near the poverty line, and those who are squarely in the middle class, are getting the raw end of the deal,» Cecil says.
Every time I see a «poverty and education» story I think of the famous line from the New Testament in which Jesus says, «The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want.»
I'm thinking of a study done on giving to charity: the researchers found that people who were at the poverty line who gave a little donation of something to someone made them feel «at least I'm better off than they are and I can afford to give him a quarter.»
Its deft handling of crucial issues facing young people today and its exploration of the racial tensions and poverty - line discrimination that is still prevalent in even the most affluent, forward - thinking societies paints a very genuine picture of life for teenagers, but it might not be a publishing industry marketing team's dream book.
It's not what you may think: this 41 % is made up not only of people living at or below the poverty line.
Right now my biggest fear is that I'm expanding my business too quickly - I'm going from literally what I did all of 2014 as far as flipping for the year to doing that in the next month and its scary to acquire a ton of properties at once there is the fear of failure lots of What IF's but I think even bigger than that fear is that I will die poor so I will do whatever it takes to be as far away from the poverty line as possible.