breadline

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Examples of breadline

  • I do not say that we are reduced to the breadline, but the allowance no longer covers the use of the charter flights.

  • Most of the people who would benefit—though not all—from the £2¼ billion back in their pockets would spend it, because they are living on the breadline.

  • A year ago there were 242,000 more persons and their families on the supplementary benefit breadline than at the time of the last election.

  • Our courts are full of people who are on the breadline.

  • Today's statement is a package of broken promises and breadline benefits.

  • The farms in my area are largely family units, which often have a breadline economy.

  • What effect will forcing people below the breadline have on their subsequent behaviour?

  • In revenue terms, that will affect people living on the breadline.

  • Certainly, the minority of people who are fortunate enough to be above the breadline should not have their benefits means tested.

  • The only way in which that can be done, however, is by reducing unemployment, unless one is set on putting the unemployed on the breadline.

  • We are suggesting that the sanction policy will leave people below the breadline.

  • I could then see that once again the poor old man on the breadline will be hammered and the others will go free.

  • I jotted down some of her words and phrases, such as "fractured society"and"breadline".

  • As a nation, we cannot go forward if we are spending on benefits and keeping families on the breadline, and in many instances in poverty.

  • The absent parent will face a sharp reduction in what is already a breadline income.

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