"poverty" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Day to day, the poverty measure directly affects the lives of millions of Americans.
- At least $60 billion in federal aid annually is linked to the poverty measure, and $260 billion or so in Medicaid spending takes it into account.
- She is working on a way to adjust the new poverty measure also for regional differences in living costs, particularly for housing.
- The poverty thresholds are the original version of the federal poverty measure.
- The poverty guidelines are the other version of the federal poverty measure.
- Relative poverty measures are used as official poverty rates in several developed countries.
- Cameron is having a dig at relative poverty measures.
- The United States, in contrast, uses an absolute poverty measure.
- Both absolute and relative poverty measures are usually based on a person's yearly income and frequently take no account of total wealth.
- Official poverty measures count those on less than 60% of median income.
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