poverty threshold

Overall, 13% of the population fall below the poverty threshold.

It has helped raise many poor people above the poverty threshold.

Further, the average income among all poor families fell nearly $6,700 short of the poverty threshold.

For these families, poverty thresholds were set at three times the cost of the economy food plan.

This is far below the official poverty threshold income for a family of three.

The magnitude of families living below the poverty threshold is much too high.

In the meantime, 30% of Europe's children live below the poverty threshold.

Percent of county residents with household income below the poverty threshold.

At the same time, approximately 80 million European citizens are below the poverty threshold.

In a typical year, it is estimated that nearly 12% of Americans are living below the poverty threshold.

Europe and many other developed countries use a relative poverty threshold, typically 50% of the countries' average income.

Poverty thresholds depend on the number of people living in the household.

Yet the national poverty threshold remains the basis for calculating most aid here.

Some poverty thresholds were higher than the national rate, some lower.

The House bill would roughly double that amount, still leaving a typical family well short of the poverty threshold.

The original poverty threshold has been adjusted each year since to allow for inflation, and that is all.

In several countries, those living below the dollar-per-day poverty threshold declined.

Around 15% of citizens in the European Union live below the poverty threshold.

As a result, poor households and those near the poverty threshold can be particularly vulnerable to increases in food prices.

On the issue of where the poverty threshold should be set, the panel recommended a method but not a precise answer.

Children whose families broke the poverty threshold had a 40 percent decrease in behavioral symptoms.

Even in the countries that are doing better, however, such as Belgium, integration incomes still often fall below the poverty threshold.

Barbara is high as average income is even lower than the regional poverty threshold.

But, it declared, the poverty thresholds have not kept pace with improvements in the American standard of living.

Unemployment is in the order of 80%, and 40% of the unemployed are living below the poverty threshold.