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The poverty level is an approximation of the income needed by a family to barely survive. It is roughly three times the amount that a typical family of its size would spend on food.<ref>http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/papers/hptgssiv.htm</ref>

Numerous regulations for government assistance programs depend on the poverty level or threshold.

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