It is estimated that less than 15% of the total increase in wages resulting from an increase in the minimum will go to people below the poverty line and less than a third of those receiving the minimum wage are families below the poverty line.
In addition, some Florida adults below the poverty line already get coverage through Medicaid: jobless parents (below 22 percent of FPL) and working parents (below 56 percent of FPL).
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He called in at Gee's Bend, a poor black corner of Alabama, and Inez, a tiny Kentucky coal town where Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty (a third of Inez's residents remain below the poverty line).
And it's a plan that rewards responsibility, lifting 2 million Americans from poverty by ensuring that anyone who works hard does not have to raise a child below the poverty line.
And which state has the highest percentage of people living below the poverty line?
At present, childless adults below the poverty line do not get Medicaid in Florida.
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Only 15% lived below the poverty line in 2009, down from 45% in the mid-1980s.
Thus we cannot use the number below the poverty line to argue for expansion of these programs.
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However, he concedes that 18% of Bosnians live below the poverty line, and another 30% just above it.
Bushwick is recovering now, but half of the children under age 18 still live below the poverty line.
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Although India is seeing rapid growth, more than 40% of its population still lives below the poverty line.
As a result, very few old people are below the poverty line, but a third of children are.
It was a sobering but educational look at Indonesia, where some 40 million people live below the poverty line.
He noted that there were a lot of people below the poverty line.
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The proposal would also offer this benefit to disabled individuals below the poverty line who are ineligible for Medicaid.
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The World Bank estimates that 42% of Yemenis live below the poverty line.
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Well-founded doubts also exist about whether such schemes really reach the 250m-300m Indians who live below the poverty line.
India did least well, cutting the share below the poverty line from 60% to 42% between 1981 and 2005.
"One parent families are five times more likely than two parent families to below the poverty line, " Gore said.
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But the one thing that would not happen is any reduction in the number of people below the poverty line.
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At Christmas the organisation provided 400 hampers of food an other essential goods to families living below the poverty line.
The oil revenues of Equatorial Guinea, where three-quarters of the population live below the poverty line, are a state secret.
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This federally funded program is a comprehensive child-development initiative intended primarily for preschool children whose families fall below the poverty line.
Today, a family with two kids that works hard and relies on a minimum wage salary still lives below the poverty line.
More than half the population of the town of Tunica itself still lives below the poverty line, and unemployment there is 17%.
Frequently, this leaves them trapped in work earning below the poverty line.
The economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina remains shaky--20% of the population live below the poverty line and unemployment is at an estimated 20%.
Any child from a family below the poverty line is guaranteed a free place in a nursery from the age of six months.
Some 140 million Indonesians, two-thirds of the population, could slip below the poverty line by the end of 1999, says the International Labor Organization.
According to data reported this morning, the share of Americans below the poverty line rose to 15.1% in 2010, the highest rate since 1983.
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