Taking into account economic need beyond that absolute measure, the Institute for Policy Studies found that140 million people are poor or low-income.

政策研究机构发现，把是否超出这一绝对衡量标准的经济需求考虑在内，则穷人或低收入人群数量达1.4亿人。

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Poverty is, of course, a highly relative concept, but the usual definition of "absolute" poverty is an income of less than $1.25 a day.

当然，贫困只是一个相对的概念，但是通常我们把“绝对”贫困的概念定义为每天的收入不足1.25美元。

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It is based, he points out, on charts similar to the one below (left-hand side), which plots national well-being against absolute levels of per person income.

他指出，这种观点基于下面的图表(左边那个)，表示国家幸福程度与人均收入绝对水平的关系。

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The study provides evidence that happiness is determined not only by relative income, but also by absolute income.

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Other studies confirm that people are often more concerned about their income relative to others' than about their absolute income.

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Greater declines in real median family income in both absolute and percentage terms than in Republican states, though they fell less than in swing states.

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