📚 noun • entry_id 50363
poverty line
Meanings (ES + gloss)
línea de pobreza • umbral de pobreza
The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (…
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