0 the level of income people have when they are extremely poor:
1 a group of people waiting outside a particular building to be given food:
2 the level of income someone has when they are very poor, with only just enough money to buy food, pay their rent, etc.:
The absent parent will face a sharp reduction in what is already a breadline income.
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.
I jotted down some of her words and phrases, such as "fractured society"and"breadline".
I could then see that once again the poor old man on the breadline will be hammered and the others will go free.
We are suggesting that the sanction policy will leave people below the breadline.
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.
Certainly, the minority of people who are fortunate enough to be above the breadline should not have their benefits means tested.
In revenue terms, that will affect people living on the breadline.
