How to Use poverty line in a Sentence

poverty line

noun

• An unimaginable 97 percent of Afghans may fall below the poverty line by the end of the year.
  — Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Aug. 2022
• About 40% of Puerto Ricans live at or below the poverty line.
  — Anisha Kohli, Time, 17 Dec. 2022
• Many folks who live close to the poverty line didn’t have to pay a dime in premiums, which goes a long way in getting covered.
  — Bob Herman, STAT, 17 Aug. 2022
• That’s about $800 more than the federal poverty line for a family of two.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• At the end of the war, about 60% of the Salvadoran population lived along the national poverty line.
  — Jessica Diaz-Hurtado, refinery29.com, 3 June 2022
• As a single mother living below the poverty line, her whole life is a series of punches to the chest.
  — Mariah Tauger, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2022
• Utah households must be at or below 130% of the federal poverty line.
  — Eden Villalovas, Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2023
• About one in four Black residents was living below the poverty line in 2021.
  — Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 15 Sep. 2022
• More than 18 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2022
• More than a third of Californians are living at or near the poverty line.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022
• About a third are children, and most have incomes below the federal poverty line.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• According to the same report, 19% of the population lives below the poverty line.
  — Olivia Osteen, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2022
• Back-to-school spending isn’t a new problem for Muyonjo and his family, who have been below the poverty line for much of the last three years.
  — Collin Robisheaux, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• Nearly a fifth of El Cajon lives below the poverty line, and recent surveys in the region show a rise in the number of people on the streets or in shelters.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
• By the end of last year, half the population of around 38 million lived under the poverty line, according to UN figures.
  — Rahim Faiez, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2022
• About 43 percent of Nigerians live below the poverty line.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• Nearly 50% of the population is Black or Latino, and more than half the residents live below the poverty line.
  — Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Mar. 2022
• To qualify for free meals, households must make less than 130 percent of the federal poverty line.
  — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 20 July 2022
• The team then looked at the emissions data on the people already above the poverty line to determine the effects of lifting more people out of poverty.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2022
• Family Dollar is a lifeline to many in a city where more than a quarter of residents live below the poverty line.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
• Overall, the outsize impact is on workers above the age of 25, women, workers of color, and those living below the poverty line.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 3 Jan. 2023
• Keep in mind that 12 states have refused to expand Medicaid to cover people who earn below the poverty line.
  — Jameelah Nasheed, Essence, 24 Sep. 2022
• At the time, the city’s unemployment rate hovered around 15 percent, and more than a third of the population was living under the poverty line.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• Anyone whose income is 200% or less of the federal poverty line is considered not able to afford to pay cash bail, the agreement says.
  — ABC News, 12 July 2022
• About half of women who have abortions are living below the poverty line, and most states do not allow the use of state Medicaid funds to cover the cost of the procedure.
  — Allison McCann, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• Data shows that women in most trigger law states are less likely to have health insurance and more likely to be below the poverty line.
  — Elliott Ramos, NBC News, 1 July 2022
• This is leading to a housing shortage of over 7.3 million rental homes for households below or at the federal poverty line.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 26 Oct. 2023
• The United States looks better in comparisons that use the American poverty line as a common standard.
  — Jason Deparle, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2022
• Free lunches are available to families with children who earn 130% of the federal poverty line.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2024
• Ninety percent of the population risks falling near or below the poverty line.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024