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Also important is taking responsibility for defending millions of people living on the poverty-line.
Fritos are cheap. 2009
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To clarify, there is no formal poverty-line in Ontario. 3903 can cite the Low-Income-Cut-Off as an indicator if they choose to, however, Statistics Canada has repeatedly emphasized that LICO is not the Canadian poverty line, and should not be interpreted as such.
The Privileged and the Impoverished: Now One and the Same? : Law is Cool 2008
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For this very fact, York cannot be held to guarantee yearly income above the ‘poverty-line’.
The Privileged and the Impoverished: Now One and the Same? : Law is Cool 2008
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"Many organisations cannot follow the social enterprise model of selling services because their service users have poverty-line level incomes or because they cannot secure public service delivery contracts," he said.
David Cameron's 'big society': Partners in the vanguard ? of confusion 2010
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My intent is not to belittle or trivialize the economic hardships that some of your members may be facing, but the use of the terms poverty and ‘poverty-line’ are misleading and inexcusable.
The Privileged and the Impoverished: Now One and the Same? : Law is Cool 2008
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Yes, the House should insist on raising the government contribution levels for lower incomes as well as the poverty-line calculations that determine who gets subsidized.
Matt Osborne: Cadillac Plans, Mandates, and the Proletariat 2010
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It gives the amount of resources needed to bring all poor people to the poverty-line level.
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I personally know of the IRS going after relatives that are a poverty-line family for over $1,000.
Think Progress » Bush Celebrates Fourth Largest Deficit In History 2006
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The average life expectancy has gone down, malnutrition has risen, literacy has dropped, and more than half the population is living below the poverty-line.
Kabul attack a virtual replay of 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat 2008
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Part of what makes Leaving Church valuable is that it shows how much the clergy do for those poverty-line salaries that they get.
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