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。

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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。

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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。

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Twenty-eight percent of this group had income levels that were below the poverty line.

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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%.

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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.

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