poverty level
Official destitution benchmark
Poverty level is the income threshold below which a person or household is considered poor by official standards.
Governments set poverty levels to determine eligibility for assistance programs: A family of four earning below the federal poverty level qualifies for food stamps.
The term often appears in discussions of economic policy and social welfare.
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- incomeRegular monetary receipts
- low incomeEarnings below average
- welfareComfort and prosperity
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
hunger · food insecurity · struggling · paycheck · hand to mouth · minimum wage · food stamps · destitution · hardship · economic hardship · cutoff · federal · eligibility · means tested · working poor · assistance · government assistance · breadline
- wealth statuspoor, rich, wealthy, affluent, middle-class
- income levelslow income, high income, middle income, upper class, middle class
- eligibilityeligible, ineligible, eligibility, eligibility criteria, qualified
- moneydollar, euro, coin, cash, pound
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- Censuscensus bureau, census tract, enumeration, enumerator, headcount
poverty leveleconomic elite
Wealthy upper class
the one percent · rich · luxury living · opulence · high net worth
poverty levelfinancial security
Reliable access to funds
economic stability · financial independence · self-sufficiency · solvency · financial freedom
poverty, level, poorly, poorness, impoverish, impoverished, impoverishment, pauper, pauperize