Minimum Wage or Living Income?

The greater part of the population of low income countries engages in agriculture for a living.

(n) Supporting the diversification of sources of income of people living in and around forest areas

If you save very little, the future self is unhappy living on 44 percent of the income.

Children living in low income settlements or on the streets are disadvantaged in gaining access to education.

Non money metric measures of poverty provide a different perspective on living conditions other than the income measure.

Landless labourers living outside the seam zone are not eligible for permits and lack alternative sources of income.

Children living in low income families are eligible for premium free health benefits through the Alberta Child Health Benefit.

Children living in low income settlements often have four times higher morbidity rates than their richer counterparts in the same city.

35. The living conditions in the refugee camps are basic, and there is little prospect of introducing income generating activities there.

(iv) Coastline relocation programme for low income families construction of houses flats to relocate families living in the coastline area to provide them with a better living environment and improve the coastal environment

An investment of 2.5 billion is anticipated over a period of five years to put in place measures to significantly increase the disposable income and improve the living conditions of low income households.

CA How is Afghanistan going to provide alternative income to the many people who are making their living off the drugs trade?

(b) To secure a reasonable standard of living for the farming community especially through raising personal income for people employed in agriculture

For example, in 2001, the NCB was responsible for preventing an estimated 40,700 families with 94,800 children from living in low income. This represented an 8.9 percent reduction in the number of low income families.

In several European countries, the poverty line is set at half the average national income, making people living below this line relatively poor.

Confiscation of land, particularly for those living east of the barrier, where agricultural land comprises the major source of income for its inhabitants

In addition, such contributing factors as two income families, caused by the need for additional sources of income, and migration, caused by a desire for an improved standard of living, could also be classified as poverty related.

The number of children living in families receiving Income Support in the province has declined significantly, from 25,000 in 2000 to 20,200 in 2003.

This is partly because the proportion of single parents living on a minimum income for extended periods of time is above the national average.

The impact of the Canada Child Tax Benefit and National Child Benefit Supplement (see Introduction the present report) on families with children has been to reduce the number of children living in low income, reduce the depth of poverty and reduce overlap and duplication in the delivery of services for children living in low income families.

In the worst situation on the real estate market are households whose income is 25 of the average income in Estonia, unemployed persons, families with many children, single parent families, disabled people and elderly (especially those living alone).

There are 1.4 million pregnant women in low and middle income countries living with HIV and of these, 90 percent are in sub Saharan Africa.

Both income and college graduation levels match the national norms. 63 of American Muslims report no conflict between religious devotion and living in modern society.

The rapid growth of urban areas in all regions of the world, increasing disparities of income and living conditions and the high proportion of children and young people living in conditions of poverty in those urban areas all present major challenges.

In the longer term, more radical policies such as the introduction of a negative income tax or a basic income must be considered, with the goal of providing a guaranteed minimum standard of living regardless of employment status and market wage.

Women aged 55 upward living alone without relatives and having no source of income continue to get social aid allowance if they are already entitled to.

5. Stresses the importance of developing national strategies for promoting sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities to generate income among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty

Since the 1940s, house rents have been virtually frozen, which to a great extent has helped to contain the living expenditure of the lower income groups.

Moreover, the Census Bureau s estimate of income is too narrow, given that middle income families have received increasing government transfers while benefiting from lower income tax rates. Finally, the price index used by the Census Bureau fails to capture the important contributions of new products and product improvements to Americans standard of living.

For the improvement of the living conditions of the children and of the services offered to them, the parents pay a fee, proportional to their family income.

quot 11. Calls upon Governments to develop strategies aimed at promoting sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities for income generation among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty

5. Also stresses the importance of developing national strategies for promoting sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities to generate income among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty

Correcting for variations in the cost of living across countries, the paper concludes that 10,750 of purchasing power in the year 1990 is the threshold for per capita income beyond which a country is high income, while 7,250 makes it upper middle income. (These thresholds may sound low, but the World Bank uses similar cutoffs.)

For the population as a whole, Canada has seen its low income rates decreasing, in recent years, from 15.7 percent in 1996 to 11.5 percent in 2003, which represents a decrease of approximately one million Canadians living in low income over this period.

Miscellaneous income interest income

Self generated income Total income Income per 100 people Percentages

Stresses the importance of developing national strategies for the promotion of sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities that will generate income among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty

With a total budget of 7.8 million, the project aims at improving the living conditions of rural people by providing modern energy services and promoting income generating activities.

For example, the realization of the rights to an adequate standard of living, food, social security or employment could be easily shown to directly impact on income poverty.

quot 4. Also stresses the importance of developing national strategies for promoting sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities to generate income among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty

16. In addition to a decline in the aggregate income of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the employment situation and the standard of living have also deteriorated.

Income distribution and income concentration

At the same time, there have been efforts to raise the level of earned income by setting minimum wage legislation. But the minimum wage has never reached the floor set for a living income and has not, therefore, appreciably reduced the bill for wage subsidies.

6. Stresses the importance of developing national strategies for the promotion of sustainable and productive entrepreneurial activities that will generate income among disadvantaged women and women living in poverty