Developed in the 1960s, the poverty threshold represents the basic cost of food for a household, multiplied by three.
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In 1996, 14.4m Americans had an income of less than half the poverty threshold, compared with 13.9m in 1995.
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The Green Party said it did not know how many workers sub-contracted by the councils are paid less than the poverty threshold.
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The Law Society's campaign ignores the fact that millions of people, many just above the poverty threshold of entitlement to legal aid, are currently excluded from civil justice altogether.
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The authors thus base their absolute poverty line on the 15 countries in their sample below this threshold.
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