How to Use the poverty line in a Sentence

the poverty line

noun

• Many of the bloc's 8.7 million farm workers are close to or below the poverty line.
  — Raf Casert, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
• More than 15% of its people live below the poverty line.
  — Sugam Pokharel, CNN, 11 Feb. 2024
• Yet many people remain poor or live just above the poverty line.
  — Li Yuan, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• More than a quarter of the town’s residents live below the poverty line.
  — Anita Snow, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2023
• More than half of their residents live below the poverty line.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• More than 20% of residents live below the poverty line, the report says.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• But that’s not the case for the 25 million uninsured Americans or the 50 million who are below the poverty line.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune Well, 20 May 2024
• As the richest class gets richer and more households fall below the poverty line, many are noticing a shift.
  — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 4 June 2024
• There are more than 11 million single mothers in this country and 38% of them live below the poverty line.
  — Mary McNamara, The Mercury News, 10 May 2024
• About 42% of residents lived below the poverty line and about 44% of households were single moms.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2024
• Children living below the poverty line are the most in need of a math intervention.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• In a small town where many of the residents lived below the poverty line, a number of homes were uninsured and so may never be replaced.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 1 May 2024
• Without it, millions of seniors would fall below the poverty line.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
• The research shows there is a gap between children who live below the poverty line and those who come from wealthy families.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• The small number of metrics that do exist (e.g. the poverty line) are often poorly defined.
  — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• About a quarter of Iraqis live at or below the poverty line, according to Iraq’s Planning Ministry.
  — Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• Many of them grew up below the poverty line, are minorities, or former convicts.
  — Sixteen Ramos, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
• The economy is in recession and more than 40% of Argentines live below the poverty line.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2024
• The economy is in recession and 40% of the population lives below the poverty line.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2023
• Nearly 60% of those ending a pregnancy already have children, and about half live at or below the poverty line.
  — Kelsey Butler, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2023
• That's below the poverty line for a family of four in California.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Zimmerman said about 80% of the district’s families live below the poverty line.
  — Jason Gonzales, The Denver Post, 6 May 2024
• Nearly half the city’s population lives beneath the poverty line.
  — Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 17 May 2023
• More than half the largely Latino residents live below the poverty line, and many are families.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• Three-quarters of the population has since been pushed below the poverty line, and shortages, power cuts, and surging prices have become facts of life.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Nov. 2023
• And those unfortunate enough to fall below the poverty line in Finland know that there is a network of welfare services and public aid to help them back on their feet.
  — Marja Heinonen, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
• The retiree, who once sewed socks in a factory, sees herself as part of the growing number of Argentines slipping below the poverty line.
  — Natalie Alcoba, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2024
• One report from 2014 found that one in five households with someone working at a fast-food company had an income below the poverty line.
  — Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 18 June 2024
• The workers are often women, immigrants and people of color; many live below the poverty line.
  — Mansee Khurana, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
• Some students are assigned additional dollars, such as those who have special needs, are multilingual or live below the poverty line.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024