The study also showed that the income of the poorest population was approaching, in relative terms, the international poverty line over the period: the distance between the income of the poorest and the poverty line was reduced from 6% to 2.3%.
The poverty line is a measure of income for example and so really cannot be used as a description of wealth or not wealth.
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To encourage opportunity and jobs rather than dependency and welfare, we will propose that individuals living at or near the poverty line be totally exempt from Federal income tax.
They range from being well over double the US poverty line up to being a solid middle class income in many parts of the country.
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Joachim von Amsberg, of the World Bank's Brasilia office, reckons that the combined annual income of those below this poverty line was around 16 billion reais in 1997.
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But they do not reach the poorest reliably, and have no future in countries aspiring to become middle income, except for households well above the poverty line who can pay for advantage.
The expansion allows all low-income people, or those under 133 percent of the poverty line, to qualify, according to NPR.
Ms Mayer found that although doubling the income of poor families would lift most children above the poverty line, it would have virtually no effect on their test scores and only a slight effect on social behaviour.
Under his proposal, the U.S. Department of Education would allocate dollars to states based their share of four-year olds from low- and moderate-income families (those at or below 200% of the poverty line) and funds would be distributed to local school districts and other partner providers to implement the program.
There's no official poverty line but it's generally defined as half of the city's median income.
Clinton wants to give the credit to low income workers who already get a break on their taxes because they fall below the poverty line.
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