What do you call a poor family?

Noun. Impoverished family. low-income family. impoverished family.
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How would you describe a poor family?

1 needy, indigent, impoverished, destitute, penniless, poverty-stricken, necessitous, straitened. 5 meager. 6 unsatisfactory, shabby. 7 sterile, barren, unfruitful, unproductive.
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What do you call low-income families?

impoverished family. poor family. poor household. poverty-stricken family. “Statistics Canada also calculates the amount that a low-income family falls short of their relevant lowincome cutoff.”
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What can I say instead of poor?

synonyms for poor
  • destitute.
  • impoverished.
  • indigent.
  • low.
  • meager.
  • needy.
  • penniless.
  • poverty-stricken.
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What do you call a poor community?

deprived community. disadvantaged community. underprivileged community. underresourced community. “A group of children from the Western Australian wheat belt is delivering hope to an impoverished community half a world away.”
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What is the strongest word for poor?

poor
  • needy,
  • pauperized,
  • penniless,
  • penurious,
  • poverty-stricken,
  • skint.
  • [chiefly British],
  • threadbare.
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How do you say poor in slang?

  1. inferior.
  2. below par.
  3. lousy (slang)
  4. low-grade.
  5. mediocre.
  6. no great shakes (informal)
  7. not much cop (British, slang)
  8. rotten (informal)
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How do you say low socioeconomic status?

For example, use “low socioeconomic status” rather than “low class,” or “historically marginalized population” rather than “minority.” Mentioning these categories when they are not relevant is reductive and distracting.
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How do you describe low income?

The term “low-income individual” means an individual whose family's taxable income for the preceding year did not exceed 150 percent of the poverty level amount. In the U.S., that's roughly $19,000 (it's slightly higher in Hawaii and Alaska).
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What is the politically correct term for underserved?

Use underserved only when talking about services, not as a blanket term for impoverished communities. Use the phrase “under-resourced” as a more accurate way to frame larger issues.
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What is lower income group?

Low Income Group (LIG): LIG households are defined as households having an annual income between Rs. 3,00,001 (Rupees Three Lakhs One) up to Rs. 6,00,000 (Rupees Six Lakhs).
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What is poverty vs low income?

In this fact sheet, poverty is defined as family income less than 100 percent of the federal poverty threshold, as determined by the U.S. Census Bureau; low income is defined as family income less than 200 percent of the poverty threshold. 2. The U.S. Census Bureau issues the poverty thresholds annually.
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Does low income mean poor?

The term “low income” generally describes individuals and families whose annual income is less than 130-150% of the federal poverty income level. For example, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is available to individuals with a gross monthly income of 130% of the federal poverty income level.
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How do you describe someone's SES?

Socioeconomic status is typically broken into three levels (high, middle, and low) to describe the three places a family or an individual may fall into. When placing a family or individual into one of these categories, any or all of the three variables (income, education, and occupation) can be assessed.
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What do you call the poorest of the poor?

Women, infants and elderly are considered as the poorest of the poor. This is because, in a poor household, these people suffer the most and are deprived of the maximum necessities in life.
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Who is a less fortunate person?

Someone underprivileged doesn't have the advantages other people have. Underprivileged people usually live in poverty. A privilege is a right or an advantage, and people who are underprivileged lack such rights and advantages. Many times, this word is used as a synonym for poor.
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What is meant by relative poverty?

Relative poverty describes circumstances in which people cannot afford actively to participate in society and benefit from the activities and experiences that most people take for granted. It is conventionally defined as 40, 50 or 60 percent of national median disposable income.
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What is considered poverty?

According to the CPM, 16.4% of Californians (about 6.3 million) lacked enough resources—$35,600 per year for a family of four, on average—to meet basic needs in 2019. The poverty rate dropped from 17.6% in 2018.
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What defines poverty?

Essentially, poverty refers to lacking enough resources to provide the necessities of life—food, clean water, shelter and clothing. But in today's world, that can be extended to include access to health care, education and even transportation.
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What are the 3 types of poverty?

On the basis of social, economical and political aspects, there are different ways to identify the type of Poverty:
  • Absolute poverty.
  • Relative Poverty.
  • Situational Poverty.
  • Generational Poverty.
  • Rural Poverty.
  • Urban Poverty.
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What salary is poverty?

The threshold in the United States is updated and used for statistical purposes. In 2020, in the United States, the poverty threshold for a single person under 65 was an annual income of US$12,760, or about $35 per day. The threshold for a family group of four, including two children, was US$26,200, about $72 per day.
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What is considered poor in America?

The family's 2020 poverty threshold (below) is $31,661.
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What is a lower-middle class family?

In developed nations across the world, the lower-middle class is a sub-division of the middle class that refers to households and individuals who are somewhat educated and usually stably employed, but who have not attained the education, occupational prestige, or income of the upper-middle class.
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How do you categorize income level?

Economies are currently divided into four income groupings: low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high, based on GNI per capita (in U.S. dollars, converted from local currency using the Atlas method).
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How do you classify income levels?

The World Bank assigns the world's economies to four income groups—low, lower-middle, upper-middle, and high-income countries. The classifications are updated each year on July 1 and are based on GNI per capita in current USD (using the Atlas method exchange rates) of the previous year (i.e. 2020 in this case).
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