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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About 48 percent of enrollees are below 200 percent of the federal poverty line.
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Next I would tax every person above the poverty line 4%, absolutely no deductions.
They are living close to the poverty line with no help other than family.
By reducing the relative poverty line, this reduces relative poverty, other things being equal.
In poorer countries, meanwhile, they end up trapped in jobs earning poverty line wages.
There's no official poverty line but it's generally defined as half of the city's median income.
Only 15% lived below the poverty line in 2009, down from 45% in the mid-1980s.
Eighty percent of Haiti's population lives under the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook.
The poverty line is defined, in the US, as three times the food budget of 1962.
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Thus we cannot use the number below the poverty line to argue for expansion of these programs.
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Brewer seeks to cut off Medicaid services to those who earn 25% below the federal poverty line.
And now, everyone above the poverty line will gain access to higher-quality, private-sector coverage on the exchanges.
Suppose, he says, we gave the money needed to reach the poverty line to everyone below it.
The government claims Labour spent billions moving people above the poverty line without significantly changing their children's opportunities.
There are now 46.2 million people in America under the poverty line, according to The Los Angeles Times.
However, he concedes that 18% of Bosnians live below the poverty line, and another 30% just above it.
The authors thus base their absolute poverty line on the 15 countries in their sample below this threshold.
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.
Widows are twice as likely to live under the poverty line as men who have lost their wives.
As a result, very few old people are below the poverty line, but a third of children are.
That way, middle class individuals, as well as millionaires, are taxed on amounts earned above the actual poverty line.
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And what's more, the president wanted to cover only children up to 200 percent of the federal poverty line.
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.
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