the poverty line

noun

: the level of income that makes it possible for a person to pay for basic food, clothing, and shelter

families living below/at the poverty line

Examples of the poverty line in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The additional $50 million from the legislature will allow the state to partially replace the expiring subsidies for customers earning less than four times the poverty line, with an emphasis on people with lower incomes, Conway said. —Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 29 Aug. 2025

And 37 million Americans lived below the poverty line ($27 per day) in that same year. —Howard Steele, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025

This is rural Richland Parish, once a floodplain tangled with meandering bayous and wild canebrake where black bears still wander and a quarter of the 20,000 residents live below the poverty line. —Delaney Nolan, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025

For women—particularly Black and Hispanic women—job loss in mid- or late-career can translate into poverty: 11.6% of women over 65 live below the poverty line, rising to nearly 20% for Black and Hispanic women (compared to 8.8% for men over 65). —Sheila Callaham, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025

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