Live-in-poverty Definition

verb
Having a cash income below the poverty level.
Despite the economic recovery, the percentage of the U.S. population living in poverty rose to 12.5 percent in 2003
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Living in poverty, i.e., leading a life on the same economic level as someone who gets no charity or government benefits and whose cash income is below the poverty level.

Conservatives say that less than 0.5 percent of the population is really living in poverty, arguing that statistics should include the value of charity and welfare.
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Live-in-poverty Sentence Examples

  • Children are more likely than adults to live in poverty and more than 2.5 million live in workless households.

  • The fact that an unprecedented number of earth's inhabitants today live in poverty is an indictment of governments, not a reflection of some underlying natural limit.

  • Children who live in poverty and suffer from malnutrition, unhealthy living conditions, and improper or inadequate medical care are at a higher risk.

  • Many women are single parents and heads of households, and many of these live in poverty.

  • Poverty exerts its greatest impact during children's preschool years, the age group in which children are most likely to live in poverty.

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