Each of these groups contains a high concentration of those below the poverty line. |
With half the population below the poverty line and one-third out of work, the utility hikes may well simply be unsustainable. |
They are still living below the poverty line, and that poverty line is an inhuman poverty line. |
This is legally possible because minimum wages have been kept way below the poverty line. |
One of the variables included in the survey is household income relative to the poverty line. |
Forty years earlier, a family at the poverty line had an income that was 42.6 percent of the median income. |