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Pakistan-born immigrants are the new face of poverty in urban Canada. The Canadian census revealed that 44 per cent of Pakistan-born immigrants fell below the poverty line making them the second most poverty prone group of immigrants in Canada.
May 16, 2012 at 08:50 | Source: DAWN Group
The proportion of older people living below the poverty line has been growing steadily since 2005, and many of those people are falling into poverty as they age and spend down their savings. Poverty rates for people ages 65 to 74 climbed from 7 ...
May 21, 2012 at 16:37 | Source: Yahoo Finance
In 1986, the absolute poverty line was set at income of 206 yuan ($32.70) per annum. The level was raised to 785 yuan in 2007. The same year saw the annual net income standard of 865 yuan, originally set in 2000 for those on low incomes, rising to 1,067 yuan.
May 25, 2012 at 01:59 | Source: Xinhua News Agency
Casen calculates its poverty line from the cost of a basic basket of foodstuffs needed to satisfy a person’s calorific needs. That value is doubled to allow for basic spending on food, clothing and transport. In 2011, the value was 72,098 ...
May 28, 2012 at 21:08 | Source: Financial Times
A record 885,0000 people in the state, nearly 300,000 of them children, lived below the poverty line, say authors of an analysis by the Legal Services of New Jersey Poverty Research Institute in Edison, which is based on the most recent numbers available.
May 19, 2012 at 23:56 | Source: Philadelphia Daily News
As an office manager in a St. Louis technology company, Shawntay Nicole’s work duties have steadily increased without any increase in pay or title. To let off steam, she turns her real-life frustrations into laughs at a stand-up comedy club.
May 22, 2012 at 16:29 | Source: Forbes
In 2010, “poverty” meant having an income of less than $22,113 for a family of four; 15.1 percent of Americans were below that line. As this map shows, some areas of the country fared worse than others between 2007 and 2010. While some ...
May 18, 2012 at 12:59 | Source: Slate
Municipal officials estimate there are approximately 125,000 Calgarians living below what’s statistically considered the poverty line: less than $22,000 annual income for an individual or less than $42,000 for a family of four. The current ...
May 28, 2012 at 23:24 | Source: calgaryherald.com
The UPA Government’s anxiety to change the public perception of itself about the poor led to the setting up of another committee to revisit the definition of poverty. However, the decision seems to have backfired, as according to official sources ...
May 25, 2012 at 19:02 | Source: Daily Pioneer
“It’s just not sufficiently in our conversation that there are 103 million people who have incomes below twice the poverty line, below $36,000 for a family of three. And those are people who are struggling every day. They’re not poor. They don’t ...
May 25, 2012 at 13:12 | Source: Nation