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Is the poverty line measured in absolute poverty?

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Absolute poverty vs relative poverty?
a deprivation of resources that is life threatening-most third world countries
What is the poverty line?
The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. People who have an income below the poverty line for the nation's cities was...
What was the poverty line in the 1950's?
$3000 about.
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The poverty line is defined as?
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