official poverty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofofficialandpoverty
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official
adjective
uk/əˈfɪʃ.əl/us/əˈfɪʃ.əl/
relating to a position ...
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poverty
noun[U]
uk/ˈpɒv.ə.ti/us/ˈpɑː.vɚ.t̬i/
the condition of being ...
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(Definition ofofficialandpovertyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In this country one third of the work force—about 8 million people—live on or near theofficialpovertyline.
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In my constituency, one third of pensioners live below theofficialpovertyline.
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A family with two children is now required to start paying tax on income that is £23 a week below theofficialpovertyline.
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One-third earn less than £75 a week, which is theofficialpovertyline.
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One in three of our households now lives on or below theofficialpovertyline.
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This analysis therefore serves to illuminate a range of issues relating toofficialpovertytargets and to what constitutes progress in combating poverty.
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The experimental poverty measure appears to describe a population that looks more like that described by material hardship than theofficialpovertymeasure.
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Their suggestion was that revising theofficialpovertymeasure would improve the correlation between material hardship and poverty.
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They shared her husband's pension (470 pesos, equivalent to £55 a month), and their per capita income was below theofficialpovertyline (£45).
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The authors cited three critical problems with theofficialpovertymeasure, one being the low correlation often found between cash income and material hardship.
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Examining correlations between income and material hardship by family characteristics, the authors concluded thatofficialpovertystatistics are an unreliable guide to the distribution of hardship.
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On the average, 56% of the participants in each sample lived in neighborhoods where 20% or more of the nonelderly poor lived below theofficialpovertyline.
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In the end, however, the authors suggested a measure that includes people with certain kinds of hardships and with incomes below 200 per cent of theofficialpovertythresholds.
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Two out every three pensioners are living at or very near the point ofofficialpoverty.
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It means that the tax level is now set below theofficialpovertyline, and that cannot be right.
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That is the nearest definition that exists of anofficialpovertyline.
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That level of income—approximately £8,000 a year—is below theofficialpovertyfigure.
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What a totally absurd situation that people whose earnings are below theofficialpovertyline, as fixed by social security benefits, should be taxed.
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It is an incredible anomaly within our social security and tax systems that people with earnings below theofficialpovertyline are being taxed.
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