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You have more than 30 million people under the poverty line in America.

More than 72 percent of the students live below the poverty line.

Today, 3.2 million more Americans live below the poverty line than in 1981.

Half of the people who live here are below the poverty line.

No people in the community were below the poverty line.

About one in 10 white Americans fall below the poverty line.

At the same time, 70 percent of all black people live below the poverty line.

No one under the age of 18 or over 64 were living below the poverty line.

About 37 million Americans continue to live below the poverty line.

Nearly 20 percent of these families live below the poverty line.

About 11.9 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

Two people but no families are below the poverty line.

More than half the population now lives below the poverty line, according to the government.

Some 60 percent of the families are at or below the poverty line.

Public works programs would create real jobs, at a level above the poverty line.

At the same time, there are almost 20 million people living below or just above the poverty line.

A third of the families lived below the poverty line.

More than half of its children lived below the poverty line.

In most other cities, these workers live near the poverty line.

Almost a third of the residents are below the poverty line.

Almost no one in the village is below the poverty line.

None of the population was living below the poverty line.

Having more than five children usually brings a family under the poverty line.

She is the only doctor here, and about 80 percent of her patients live below the poverty line.

In 2006, 22 percent of Indians lived under the poverty line.

After 26 weeks, 55 percent were at the poverty level.

Nearly a third of the people live below the poverty level.

Some 56 percent of the population lives below the poverty level.

And half of those who kept working were living below the poverty level.

In 1999, more than half the families with children under 5 were below the poverty level.

Half the population lives below the poverty level, up from 38 percent in 1985.

A second problem is that many people who get a job still live below the poverty level.

We have people working two jobs just to reach the poverty level.

"Those that are at the poverty level get a range of government services," he said.

"There are 28 million Americans that went to work this morning who made less than the poverty level."

More than half the county residents live below the poverty level.

Before they went to work, their average income was 35 percent below the poverty level.

After they took jobs, their income was more than 25 percent above the poverty level.

The area has 3,800 residents, 42 percent of them below the poverty level.

In four of every five cases, the uninsured made less than three times the poverty level.

Many states set income limits far below the poverty level.

Family income may not exceed 185 percent of the poverty level.

New Jersey covered children up to 350 percent of the poverty level.

"I have over 70 percent of my kids below the poverty level.

This year it pays at 56 percent of the poverty level.

A significant proportion of our population live below the poverty level.

They all came from families with incomes that were no more than 150 percent of the poverty level.

They would have to offer Medicaid to all children under the poverty level through the age of 18.

The elderly may not live below the poverty level, but they still have needs that must be met.

The majority of the city's inhabitants live below the poverty level.