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what do you mean by poverty line?
A minimum income level used as an official standard for determining the proportion of a population living in poverty.

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    Even when you add in programs such as food stamps, that figure is well below the poverty line.  If their income falls below a certain level-say, the poverty line -they pay nothing.  Most adjuncts still hover somewhere around the poverty line. 


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