Only 14% of food-stamp households have incomes above the poverty line; 41% have incomes of half that level or less, and 18% have no income at all.
获得食品救济券资助的家庭中，只有14%其收入在贫困线以上，41%收入是贫困线水平的一半及以下，还有18%没有任何收入。
In Kenya, for example, at current economic growth rates and with the present levels of income inequality, the median family in poverty would not cross the poverty line until 2030.
例如，按当前的经济增长率和目前的收入不平等水平，肯尼亚中等贫穷的家庭在2030年之前将不能跨越贫穷线。
They cause billions of dollars in losses of national income, and they push millions of people below the poverty line, each and every year.
每年它们都会使国家收入产生数十亿美元的损失，并将数百万人推向贫穷线以下。
This is why they continually redefine poverty and raise the income threshold for the "poverty line."
他们在不断重新定义贫穷，“贫穷线”的收入标准也在不断提高。
If we calculate by the Chinese poverty line standard that is about a half USD income per day, there are 40 million Chinese people are still under that poverty line.
就是按照中国人均收入1300元的贫困标准线，中国还有4000万人没有脱贫。
Eurostat, the European Union's statistics agency, takes a different approach: It defines the poverty line as 60 percent of each nation's median income.
欧盟统计机构Eurostat(欧盟统计局)采用了不同的计算方法：贫困线是按各国中位收入的60%来制定。
According to the 2008 rural poverty line with annual per capita net income below 1,196 yuan, the population in poverty in rural areas numbered 40.07 million at the end of the year.
按2008年农村贫困标准1196元测算，年末农村贫困人口为4007万人。
Negative income tax a taxation system where income subsidies are given to persons or families that are below the poverty line.
负所得税向贫穷线以下人士或家庭提供收入资助的税务制度。
The poverty line — it is based on the income that households need to eat adequately without spending more than a third of their income on food.
贫困线，是以一家人能够足够吃饱的收入不超过他们在食物三分之一的收入。
Second, the intensity of poverty suffered by those below the threshold income must be measured once the poverty line is specified.
其次，贫困线设定后，收入落在贫困线以下的人所遭受的贫困程度度量。
China is raising its rural poverty line by more than 90% in what it says is an attempt to increase aid to its low-income population.
中国将农村贫困线上调90%多，称这是为了增加对低收入人群的帮助。
For starters, the original poverty line is pegged to only one thing: food costs as a share of annual income.
对于基准线来说，最初的贫困线仅仅与一项指标相挂钩：食物支出占年收入的比重。
And in l977, the average poverty line of the country was slightly more than $6,200 annual income for a non- farm family of four.
而到一九七七年，国家规定一个四口的非农业家庭的平均贫穷线为年收入略高于六千二百美元。
And in l977, the average poverty line of the country was slightly more than $6,200 annual income for a non- farm family of four.
而到一九七七年，国家规定一个四口的非农业家庭的平均贫穷线为年收入略高于六千二百美元。
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