Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a level of personal income defining the state of poverty
Examples
“Like me and Jamie though, Danny’s family was just above the poverty line and when he started making pretty decent money, he had a penchant for buying g-gaudy jewelry.””
“Eighty percent of Haiti's 9 million residents live under the poverty line and more than half -- 54 percent -- live in abject poverty, according to the CIA Factbook.”
“But it's also taking place in schools where large majorities of children find themselves below the poverty line yet above the national average in achievement -- places like Newark's Branch Book Elementary and Chicago's Carson Elementary School.”
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chained_bear "In the 1880s a businessman named Charles Booth set out to conduct a block-by-block survey of London to determine the economic and social well-being of its residents as a means of contesting the outrageous claims of socialists that poverty in England was vast and deep. ... Booth was stunned to find that the incidence of poverty actually was greater than even the socialists had proclaimed. He found that just over 30 percent of the city's population lived below the 'poverty line,' a term he invented."
—Erik Larson, Thunderstruck (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006), 156–157 Jul 6, 2009