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Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to amuse a few dozen middle-class people with my books and articles, I did struggle to survive in my own way.
I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.
I think that America in general is piratical. Every time we accept a paycheck for doing almost nothing, allowing us to live above the poverty line, we're engaging in piracy.
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.
Inflation is taking up the poverty line, and poverty is not just economic but defined by way of health and education.
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
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1
Poverty Lines in Theory and Practice
Neither group of methods demands that everyone at the poverty line will actually
attain these (objective or subjective) norms. The welfare indicator is typically not
the actual attainment of the norm, but rather having the minimum income which ...
2
Panama
Poverty Assessment: Priorities and Strategies for ...
Two thirds of all rural residents fall below the full poverty line and close to 40
percent live in extreme poverty. Figure 1.1 Geographic Distribution of Poverty (
LSMS 1997) Indigenous 19% Urban 23% Ethnicity, Geography, and Poverty: %
below ...
3
A Pro-poor Urban Agenda for Africa: Clarifying Ecological ...
for the proportion of Kenya's urban population who were poor – ranging from 1
per cent to 49 per cent.15 In Ethiopia, the proportion of the urban population with
incomes below the poverty line in 1995/6 could have been 49, 33 or 18 per cent,
...
4
Poverty Reduction and Growth: Virtuous and Vicious Circles
BOX 2.1 Income poverty lines Income poverty is defined as the inability to
achieve a certain minimum income level, known as the poverty line. Even this
limited definition can be contentious because there are neither normative nor
objectively ...
5
Poverty in a Wealthy Economy: The Case of Nigeria
There are two main ways of setting poverty lines — in a relative or absolute way: (
i) Relative poverty lines: These are defined in relation to the overall distribution of
income or consumption in a country; for example, the poverty line could be set ...
Saji Thomas, Sudharshan Canagarajah, 2002
6
Economic Inequality and
Poverty
Distribution 1 Distribution 2 Income za Absolute poverty line zr Relative poverty
line = % ym Ym1 Median income, distribution 1 Ymz Median income, distribution
2 implies that poverty may be reduced if the relative situation of the poor
improves ...
7
Poverty: An International Glossary, Second Edition
The poverty line was set at 200 yuan per person per day at 1984 rural prices (
Van and Wang 1996) by assuming a minimum necessary food intake of 2,400
kcal/day and costing an idealized food basket based on the actual consumption ...
Paul Spicker, Sonia Alverez Leguizamon, David Gordon, 2007
8
Rural
Poverty Alleviation in Brazil: Towards an Integrated ...
The expenditure headcount measure indicates that 50 percent and 24.6 percent
of the rural population in the NE and SE, respectively, fall under the extreme
poverty line (equal to the minimum necessary for basic food requirements), which
is ...
9
Why Has
Poverty Increased in Zimbabwe?
Consistent with the evidence on declining real levels of well-being, there was an
unambiguous increase in poverty in Zimbabwe between 1990 and 1995. For "
reasonable" levels of the poverty line (that is, real consumption expenditures in ...
Jeffrey R. Alwang, Bradford F. Mills, Nelson Taruvinga, 2002
10
Poverty in Russia: Public Policy and Private Responses
The Poverty Line Economists typically measure poverty based on a poverty line.
Two alternative approaches are possible, one using an absolute poverty line and
the other a relative poverty line. An absolute poverty line is fixed over the ...
WIADOMOŚCI, KTÓRE ZAWIERAJĄ SŁOWO «POVERTY LINE»
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poverty line w wiadomościach.
2016 budget worries bonds mayors, social service NGOs
... tasked by the government to formulate a plan to reduce the number of people living below the poverty line and to reduce the depth of poverty. «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Lip 15»
Child poverty tops agenda at meeting of Dundee leaders
... is that in Dundee an even greater proportion of children are growing up in poverty, with one in four children living below the poverty line. «The Courier, Lip 15»
NITI Aayog likely to draw the line on poverty
Those involved in the task force said the calculation of the poverty line could be done either by the Aayog itself or the National Statistical ... «Business Standard, Lip 15»
Sanctions push 3 million Russians into poverty
The number of Russians surviving on less than the equivalent of £108 a month — defined as being below the poverty line — rose from 19.8 ... «The Times, Lip 15»
“Pockets of poverty” springing up in Finland, report warns
Households in receipt of the basic welfare support payment will now live at the level of the poverty line, according to the study. The European ... «YLE News, Lip 15»
Andrew Dunn: The relative definition of poverty is fundamentally …
... if, for example, you are at the relative poverty line in Britain you are, in one respect, in the same condition as someone at the relative poverty ... «Conservative Home, Lip 15»
Nurturing Family May Lessen Early Brain Deficits Due to Poverty
Luby suggests that teaching nurturing skills to parents, particularly those who live below the poverty line, may provide a lifetime of benefit for ... «PsychCentral.com, Lip 15»
Letter-Child-poverty-452
143,200 children. That is the number of children in Alberta living below the poverty line. Here in the City of Medicine Hat and Cypress County of ... «Medicine Hat News, Lip 15»
In Tampa Bay, this is what child poverty looks like
That year, the poverty line for a family of four was $23,550. The 2013 data was the last year the Casey study could examine. Florida was ranked ... «Tampabay.com, Lip 15»
Amid deepening child poverty in the South, glimmers of hope
The child poverty problem is even worse in the South, where over 25 percent of people under the age of 18 live below the poverty line, an ... «Facing South, Lip 15»
