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People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
Marcy Kaptur

Meaning of "poverty level" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POVERTY LEVEL

poverty level  [ˈpɒvətɪ ˈlɛvəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POVERTY LEVEL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Poverty level is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POVERTY LEVEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, or poverty line, is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country. In practice, like the definition of poverty, the official or common understanding of the poverty line is significantly higher in developed countries than in developing countries. The common international poverty line has in the past been roughly $1 a day. In 2008, the World Bank came out with a revised figure of $1.25 at 2005 purchasing-power parity. Determining the poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year. The largest of these expenses is typically the rent required to live in an apartment, so historically, economists have paid particular attention to the real estate market and housing prices as a strong poverty line affector. Individual factors are often used to account for various circumstances, such as whether one is a parent, elderly, a child, married, etc. The poverty threshold may be adjusted annually.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POVERTY LEVEL


AS-level
ˌeɪˈɛsˌlɛvəl
bedevil
bɪˈdɛvəl
bevel
ˈbɛvəl
bilevel
ˈbaɪˌlɛvəl
daredevil
ˈdɛəˌdɛvəl
devil
ˈdɛvəl
devvel
ˈdɛvəl
dishevel
dɪˈʃɛvəl
eyelevel
ˈaɪˌlɛvəl
kevel
ˈkɛvəl
knevell
ˈnɛvəl
level
ˈlɛvəl
low-level
ˌləʊˈlɛvəl
nonlevel
ˌnɒnˈlɛvəl
O-level
əʊ ˈlɛvəl
revel
ˈrɛvəl
unlevel
ʌnˈlɛvəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POVERTY LEVEL

poussin
pout
poutassou
pouter
poutful
poutine
pouting
poutingly
pouty
poverty
poverty line
poverty trap
poverty-stricken
pow
POW camp
powan
powder
powder blue
powder blush
powder blusher

WORDS THAT END LIKE POVERTY LEVEL

A level
A-level
acceptable quality level
Advanced level
blood alcohol level
confidence level
energy level
entry-level
eye level
ground level
high-level
multilevel
O level
on a level
on the level
reduced level
sea level
split-level
street level
top-level
water level

Synonyms and antonyms of poverty level in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «poverty level» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POVERTY LEVEL

Find out the translation of poverty level to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of poverty level from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «poverty level» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

贫困水平
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nivel de pobreza
570 millions of speakers

English

poverty level
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गरीबी के स्तर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مستوى الفقر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уровень бедности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nível de pobreza
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দারিদ্রের স্তর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

seuil de pauvreté
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tahap kemiskinan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Armutsgrenze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

法定貧困レベル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

빈곤 수준
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tingkat kemiskinan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mức nghèo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வறுமை நிலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गरिबीचे स्तर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yoksulluk düzeyi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

livello di povertà
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

poziom ubóstwa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рівень бідності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nivelul de sărăcie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

το επίπεδο της φτώχειας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vlak van armoede
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fattigdomsgränsen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fattigdomsgrensen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of poverty level

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POVERTY LEVEL»

The term «poverty level» is regularly used and occupies the 55.647 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POVERTY LEVEL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about poverty level

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3 QUOTES WITH «POVERTY LEVEL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word poverty level.
1
Margaret Geller
A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.
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Marcy Kaptur
People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.
3
Mohammed Morsi
If there is a spot where you have dictatorship, where people are not free, people are not satisfied, they do not find food and shelter, they are under the poverty level, this is a dangerous spot for the whole world, because those people will move, and they will move to different places. They will be carrying bad feelings towards others.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POVERTY LEVEL»

Discover the use of poverty level in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to poverty level and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level
This report presents detailed social and economic characteristics of the U.S. population below the poverty level in 1984 based on the March 1985 Current Population Survey (CPS). Poverty data are cross-classified by such characteristics as ...
‎1986
2
The Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development
Comprehensive and integrative, The Oxford Handbook of Poverty and Child Development describes the contextual and social ecology of children living in poverty and illuminates the biological and behavioral interactions that either promote ...
Valerie Maholmes, Rosalind Berkowitz King, 2012
3
Poverty Analysis Using an International Cross-country Demand ...
level of expenditure and local prices, but also the poverty level of utility (i.e. the utility of the consumption bundle purchased at local prices with the poverty level of expenditure). The advantage of such an approach is that the resulting poverty  ...
John Andrew Lionel Cranfield, Paul V. Preckel, Thomas Warren Hertel, 2007
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Children in Poverty: Child Development and Public Policy
Nature of poverty for children Defining poverty The official poverty level established by the U.S. government is the most widely used index of poverty. It was originally based on the estimated cost of an "economy food budget" multiplied by 3 on ...
Aletha C. Huston, 1991
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1990 Census of Population: Social and economic ...
»inikiHj (oslen) Mole householder (dollars) Living atone (dolare) Female householder (dolors) Living atone (dolare) MC0ME IN 1989 1EL0W POVERTY LEVEL lexemes Percent below poverty Level Mettled tesfle lulu Percent below poverty ...
‎1993
6
State-level Databook on Health Care Access and Financing
AMILY INCOME CHARACTERISTICS1 As shown in Table G4a, approximately 19 percent of the nonelderly population lived in families with incomes below the federal poverty level. Considerable variation was exhibited by region and state in  ...
David Liska, Niall J. Brennan, Brian K. Bruen, 1998
7
The State of Working America 2006/2007
The workforce is divided into six wage groups based on multiples of the "poverty- level wage," or the hourly wage that a full-time, year-round worker must earn to sustain a family of four at the poverty threshold, which was $9.60 in 2005 (in 2005  ...
Lawrence R. Mishel, Jared Bernstein, Sylvia A. Allegretto, 2006
8
Extent and Measurement of Poverty in India: A Case Study of ...
First, we should be concerned not merely with the number of people below the poverty line but also with the amount by which the incomes of the poor fall short of the specified poverty level, and secondly, the bigger the shortfall from the poverty ...
Keshav Dev Gaur, 1988
9
Poverty in the United States
Weighted average thresholds at poverty level. As shown in table A-3, the poverty cutoffs used by the Bureau of the Census to determine the poverty status of families and unrelated individuals consist of a set of 48 thresholds arranged in a  ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, 1992
10
Handbook of Urban Health: Populations, Methods, and Practice
In 1999, 1 in 4 blacks or latinos lived below poverty level (Bishaw and Iceland, 2003). These figures have remained nearly unchanged in 2003 (DeNavas-Walt, et al., 2004). For example, Figures 1, 2 and 3 show first an overlay of urban areas  ...
Sandro Galea, David Vlahov, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POVERTY LEVEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term poverty level is used in the context of the following news items.
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Poverty May Cause Poor Students To Receive Lower Test Scores …
The study revealed that children in households that were at 150 percent of the federal poverty level had 3 to 4 percent less gray matter than the ... «iSchoolGuide, Jul 15»
2
Best tool to fight poverty also encourages work
If you simply mail everyone below the poverty level a check, you're providing a strong incentive for people not to work, because working would ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
3
Tuesday's Letters: Building apartments at the Landing makes no sense
The authors of the FairTax state that no one should have to pay taxes for the necessities of life, up to the poverty level. The amount of the ... «Florida Times-Union, Jul 15»
4
State pushes Medicaid sign-ups for inmates
Without it, only ex-offenders who earned less than 90 percent of the federal poverty level and had dependent children — mostly women ... «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»
5
Fighting health-care fraud requires funding
To qualify for subsidized coverage, you need to be a citizen or legal immigrant, with income below 400 percent of the federal poverty level. «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
6
California's ObamaCare Rate Hike Is More Than Meets The Eye
... of the poverty level. For those with income from 200% to 250% of the poverty level, the medical deductible will rise from $1,600 to $1,900. «Investor's Business Daily, Jul 15»
7
Households caught in healthcare mismatch quagmire
But if a family's income is more than 138 percent of the federal poverty level, only children will qualify for Medi-Cal, and parents will need to ... «Sacramento Bee, Jul 15»
8
Why Should "Living Wage" Workers Even Go To School?
As Vice President Biden has said, “No one in America should be working 40 hours a week and living below the poverty level. No one. «Daily Caller, Jul 15»
9
Legal Aid may close doors without donations
In many cases, the threshold is 125 percent of poverty level. That's an annual income of $14,713 for an individual and $30,313 for a family of ... «Asbury Park Press, Jul 15»
10
Salvation Army gives fans to those in need
“We just ask that you be under the 150 percent of the poverty level, or if you are disabled or on a fixed income,” said Moore. “It`s just unbearably ... «fox4kc.com, Jul 15»

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